Re: odd output in restore mode

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> I have just been working on setting up a continuous recovery failover
> system, and noticed some odd log lines, shown below. (Using 8.3).
>
> First note that our parsing of recovery.conf in xlog.c is pretty bad,
> and at least we need to document the quirks if it's not going to be
> fixed. log_restartpoints is said to be boolean, but when I set it to an
> unquoted true I got a fatal error, while a quoted 'on' sets it to false,
> as seen. Ick. What is more, I apparently managed to get the recovery

I have fixed the boolean problem with the attached, applied patch. It
exposes guc.c::parse_bool() for use in xlog.c.

I assume all the other problems you reported have been corrected.

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