Re: recovery.conf location

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:34, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Maybe i'm missing something but this would be a problem if we put a
>> trigger file and the recovery.conf gets renamed to recovery.done, no?
>> at least that would be a problem for the standbys that still need to
>> be standbys
>
> That's not problem unless more than one standbys become master at the
> same time. Since recovery.conf is read by standby only at the start unless
> it's triggered, already-started standbys can work even if recovery.conf is
> renamed to recovery.done. Though it's somewhat tricky..

Uh, what if the slave is restarted for one reason or another? That
seems like it would be really fragile..

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