Re: Standby accepts recovery_target_timeline setting?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Standby accepts recovery_target_timeline setting?
Date: 2019-09-29 21:11:12
Message-ID: 2bd9d043-b3b8-47d2-a6c2-d89196a4d7c0@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-09-27 17:14, David Steele wrote:
> On 9/27/19 10:36 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 2019-09-26 23:02, David Steele wrote:
>>> On 9/26/19 4:48 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't know if recovery_target_timeline is actually useful to change in
>>>> standby mode.
>> OK, I have committed your original documentation patch.
> Thanks, that's a good start.
>
> As Fujii noticed and I have demonstrated upthread, just about any target
> setting can be used in a standby restore. This matches the behavior of
> prior versions so it's not exactly a regression, but the old docs made
> no claim that standby_mode disabled targeted restore.

I have further fixed the documentation.

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