Failover messages in Timeline History

Hi,

if a failover (or probably a switchover, at least in the way Patroni
does it) occurs, the timeline history (e.g. via "patronictl history"[1])
seems to read "no recovery target specified". That's correct, of course,
from a PITR perspective, but for the (possibly more common?) promotion-
of-a-standby-due-to-failover/switchover case rather misleading.

I wonder whether it could be made more informative; like "no recovery
target or failover" or "(standby) promotion witout recovery target"?

Michael

[1]

root(at)pg1:~# patronictl -c /etc/patroni/13-main.yml history | head
+----+----------+------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| TL | LSN | Reason | Timestamp |
+----+----------+------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| 1 | 83886296 | no recovery target specified | 2021-06-18T20:04:11.645437+00:00 |
| 2 | 83886928 | no recovery target specified | 2021-06-18T20:08:45.820304+00:00 |
| 3 | 83887384 | no recovery target specified | 2021-06-19T05:57:50.431980+00:00 |
| 4 | 83887840 | no recovery target specified | 2021-06-19T08:32:55.527975+00:00 |
| 5 | 84017040 | no recovery target specified | 2021-06-19T12:05:40.495982+00:00 |
| 6 | 84019264 | no recovery target specified | 2021-06-19T15:51:49.983987+00:00 |
| 7 | 84135720 | no recovery target specified | 2021-06-20T03:46:22.775851+00:00 |

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