Re: pgsql: Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf
Date: 2018-11-26 18:09:43
Message-ID: 20181126180943.fdj3dkajqtqifekb@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2018-Nov-26, Stephen Frost wrote:

> I would think we'd have the different GUCs and then the check functions
> would only validate that they're valid inputs and then when we get to
> the point where we're starting to do recovery we check and make sure
> we've been given a sane overall configuration- which means that only
> *one* is set, and it matches the recovery target requested.

I don't quite understand why it isn't sensible to specify more than one
and just stop recovery (or whatever) when at least one of them becomes
true. Maybe I want to terminate just before commit of transaction
12345, but no later than 2018-11-11 12:47 in any case.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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