Re: Proposal for changes to recovery.conf API

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for changes to recovery.conf API
Date: 2016-12-14 22:29:07
Message-ID: 0cbb9cb4-d736-2848-2aec-970c5e9e51e9@agliodbs.com
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On 12/14/2016 08:06 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 09:46:44AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>> My own take on it is that the release notes are already a massive
>>>> amount of work, and putting duplicative material in a bunch of other
>>>> places isn't going to make things better, it'll just increase the
>>>> maintenance burden.
>>>
>>> This would mean adding literally pages of material to the release notes.
>>> In the past, folks have been very negative on anything which would make
>>> the release notes longer. Are you sure?
>>
>> As that's a per-version information, that seems adapted to me. There
>> could be as well in the release notes a link to the portion of the
>> docs holding this manual. Definitely this should be self-contained in
>> the docs, and not mention the wiki. My 2c.
>
> Yes, that is the usual approach.
>

So where in the docs should these go, then? We don't (currently) have a
place for this kind of doc. Appendices?

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Josh Berkus
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