Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Allow external recovery_config_directory

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
> On 27.03.2013 18:10, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>
>> On 27 March 2013 15:35, Heikki Linnakangas<hlinnakangas@vmware.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, cool. Can you please revert this commit so that we can move on, then?
>>
>>
>> Please explain why you want this reverted, without mentioning the
>> other task we agree is required.
>
>
> If an admin can't trust that the file is placed in $PGDATA, it's harder to
> determine if a server is a master or a standby. It makes tools that try to
> promote / demote a server more complicated, because they need to take this
> setting into account. Lastly, it breaks the new pg_basebackup -R
> functionality; pg_basebackup will create the recovery.conf file, but it
> won't take effect.

This patch breaks also pg_ctl promote because it always checks the existence of
$PGDATA/recovery.conf.

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao