Re: could recovery_target_timeline=latest be the default in standby mode?

On 12/01/2019 00:53, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:17:48AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Attached revised 0002 with those changes.
>
> This one looks fine.

committed

>> In that test, if I change the 'current' to 'latest', the test doesn't
>> fail, so it's probably not a good test.
>
> I can see your point. You would need a diverging timeline to test for
> 'latest', which can surely be done as part of 003_recovery_targets.pl.
> It seems to me that that the test has initial value to make sure that
> we replay up to the end of the produced timeline's data, which is
> something untested now as the script has only restart points set to
> before the end of the timeline. If you think that's not a good
> addition now, I am also fine to not include it.

I'm not sure what the coverage is in detail in this area. It seems we
already have tests for not-specific-recovery-target, maybe not in this
file, but most of the other tests rely on that, no?

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