Re: pg_basebackup -R

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 2:38 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:40 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> In short, I'd like to think that we should just filter out those two
>> parameters by name and call it a day. Or introduce an idea of value
>> set for the environment by adding some kind of tracking flag in
>> PQconninfoOption? Though I am not sure that it is worth complicating
>> libpq to just generate recovery.conf in pg_basebackup.
>
> Yeah, I'm not sure what the best solution is. I just thought it was strange.

Thinking more about this, perhaps the correct answer is to do nothing?
target_session_attrs being set is rather similar to sslmode or
sslcompression for example. They are here but don't hurt. The same
thing applies to passfile: if the file is not here the client would
still ask for input. If it is here, things are helped a bit.
--
Michael