Re: recovery_connections cannot start

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: recovery_connections cannot start
Date: 2010-04-27 14:52:46
Message-ID: -4422948886614158345@unknownmsgid
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On Apr 27, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 15:10 +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> Treating the string "true" as a special case seems like a kludge to
>>> me. Maybe a robust set of internal commands wouldn't be a kludge,
>>> but
>>> that's not what's being proposed here. I guess it's just a matter
>>> of
>>> opinion.
>>
>> I don't see how to have internal commands without having special
>> cases
>> for the setting, and I did propose "pg_archive_bypass" as the name. I
>> guess the implementation would be what Simon was talking about,
>> though.
>>
>> I don't see "true" as meaningful in the context of an
>> archive_command…
>
> Saying "its a kludge" doesn't really address the issue and goes
> nowhere
> towards fixing it. If we don't like the proposal, fine, then what is
> the
> alternative solution?

I proposed one upthread.

...Robert

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