Re: recovery.conf location

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: recovery.conf location
Date: 2010-09-30 02:54:19
Message-ID: 25712.1285815259@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> But that's not what Tom is talking about, I don't think: you might
> also want a way to explicitly whack the flag in pg_control around.
> That would probably be along the lines of pg_resetxlog. I'm not sure
> how much use case there is for such a thing, but if it's needed it's
> certainly wouldn't be hard to write.

Right, but instead of having to provide such a tool, we could just
store the status as a text file. There is a pretty time-honored
tradition for that, ya know.

regards, tom lane

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