> There already are two ways to promote a server out of recovery. One is
> creating the trigger file. The other is "pg_ctl promote". (it uses a
> trigger file called $PGDATA/promote internally, but that's invisible to
> the user).
Right, I was thinking of the trigger file to put a server *into*
replication. That is, recovery.conf.
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