Re: Reducing power consumption on idle servers

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:55 AM Simon Riggs
<simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> No, it will have a direct effect only on people using promote_trigger_file
> who do not read and act upon the deprecation notice before upgrading
> by making a one line change to their failover scripts.

TBH, I wonder if we shouldn't just nuke promote_trigger_file.
pg_promote was added in 2018, and pg_ctl promote was added in 2011. So
even if we haven't said promote_trigger_file was deprecated, it hasn't
been the state-of-the-art way of doing this in a really long time. If
we think that there are still a lot of people using it, or if popular
tools are relying on it, then perhaps a deprecation period is
warranted anyway. But I think we should at least consider the
possibility that it's OK to just get rid of it right away.

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Robert Haas
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