Re: recovery_connections cannot start (was Re: master in standby mode croaks)

Tom Lane wrote:
> Personally I agree with your objection to "crash" but not with the
> objection to "standby". Maybe this would be appropriate:
>
> wal_mode = minimal | archive | hot_standby

Ok, here's a patch implementing this proposal. It adds a new wal_mode
setting, leaving archive_mode as it is. If you try to enable
archive_mode when wal_mode is 'minimal', you get a warning and
archive_mode is silently ignored. Likewise streaming replication
connections are not allowed if wal_mode is 'minimal'.
recovery_connections now does nothing in the master.

A bit more bikeshedding before I commit this:

* Should an invalid combination throw an ERROR and refuse to start,
instead of just warning?

* How about naming the parameter wal_level instead of wal_mode? That
would better convey that the higher levels add stuff on top of the lower
levels, instead of having different modes that are somehow mutually
exclusive.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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