Re: Standby accepts recovery_target_timeline setting?

On 2019-09-26 23:02, David Steele wrote:
> On 9/26/19 4:48 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 2019-09-25 22:21, David Steele wrote:
>>> While testing against PG12 I noticed the documentation states that
>>> recovery targets are not valid when standby.signal is present.
>>>
>>> But surely the exception is recovery_target_timeline? My testing
>>> confirms that this works just as in prior versions with standy_mode=on.
>>
>> Or maybe we should move recovery_target_timeline to a different section?
>> But which one?
>
> Not sure. I think just noting it as an exception is OK, if it is the
> only exception. But currently that does not seem to be the case.
>
>> I don't know if recovery_target_timeline is actually useful to change in
>> standby mode.

OK, I have committed your original documentation patch.

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