Re: recovery.conf location

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Our current arrangement of having a postgresql.conf file, a
> recovery.conf file, and potentially a trigger file (during final
> recovery) seems horribly hackish and impossible to manage neatly.
>

all the contrary, IMHO what we have now seems *almost* fine... what we
need to do is to have another standby side config file called maybe:
standby.conf, otherwise we will end up with another huge configuration
file ala postgresql.conf

so we remove from recovery.conf what doesn't belong there... maybe is
a good idea to put recovery_command on postgresql.conf (or in both
files, recovery.conf and standby.conf, because they are no supposed to
co-exist)

if we have an standby server we use standby.conf, if we are
recoverying a backup we use recovery.conf; and we can specify
parameters in each situation (probably standby_mode should go away too
because the only existence of a standby.conf file imply we are a
standby but that is debatable)

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