Re: some comments rewording in recovery.conf.sample about SR

Obviously...

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Le 07/01/2011 13:22, Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais a écrit :
> Hello Hackers,
>
> I believe comments in the recovery.conf.sample are somehow confusing
> about standby and SR:
>
> # Edit this file to provide the parameters that PostgreSQL needs to
> # perform an archive recovery of a database, or to act as a log-streaming
> # replication standby.
>
> It seems incomplete. It doesn't recover OR act as a log-streaming
> replication standby. It can behave as a standby node without SR as well.
>
> # When standby_mode is enabled, the PostgreSQL server will work as
> # a standby. It tries to connect to the primary according to the
> # connection settings primary_conninfo, and receives XLOG records
> # continuously.
>
> This one is quite unclear as well. We might think that once we are in
> standby_mode we will be in SR. Again, we can use the standby_mode
> without primary_conninfo. This parameter only allows to keep the cluster
> in recovery, it doesn't imply to set up the SR.
>
> # By default, a standby server keeps streaming XLOG records from the
> # primary indefinitely.
>
> Same story...
>
> Please, find in attachment a proposal of rewording.
>
> Comments ?
>
> Regards,