Re: Time-Delayed Standbys

On 12 December 2013 11:05, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

>> My suggestion would be to add the TZ to the checkpoint record. This
>> way all users of WAL can see the TZ of the master and act accordingly.
>> I'll do a separate patch for that.
>
> Intuitively I'd say that might be useful - but I am not reall sure what
> for. And we don't exactly have a great interface for looking at a
> checkpoint's data. Maybe add it to the control file instead?

That's actually what I had in mind, I just phrased it badly in mid-thought.

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