Re: recovery.conf location

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> The idea of relying on the existence of recovery.conf to determine
>> whether we should continue recovery forever or switch to normal
>> running seems somewhat klunky to me.  It mixes up settings with
>> control information.  Maybe the control information should move to
>> pg_control, and the settings to postgresql.conf.  *waves hands*
>
> You mean to move standby_mode to postgresql.conf, and determine
> whether the server should start in standby mode or not by considering
> of standby_mode and the status information in pg_control?

I can't parse that. I guess I'm wondering whether standby_mode itself
should move into pg_control. Otherwise, you need a GUC somewhere that
says whether or not you should even try standby_mode plus a trigger
file that can override the GUC. It seems like there's one bit of
information that's being spread out across multiple places.

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