On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 11/1/11 10:34 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>
>>> So, we have four potential paths regarding recovery.conf:
>>>
>>> 1) Break backwards compatibility entirely, and stop supporting recovery.conf as a trigger file at all.
>>
>> Note that is exactly what I have suggested when using "standby" mode
>> from pg_ctl.
>
> I wasn't clear on that from the description of your proposal. So are
> you suggesting that, if we start postgresql with "pg_ctl standby" then
> recovery.conf would not behave as a trigger file?
Yes
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