Re: pgsql: doc: Further clarify how recovery target parameters are applied

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 10:28 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-Oct-18, Fujii Masao wrote:
>
> > > Thanks for improving the documentation.
> > >
> > > + In this mode, the parameters from both this section and <xref
> > > + linkend="runtime-config-wal-recovery-target"/> will be used. Parameters
> > > + from <xref linkend="runtime-config-replication-standby"/> will not be
> > > + used.
> > >
> > > The latter description seems not true. hot_standby and
> > > max_standby_archive_delay in "runtime-config-replication-standby"
> > > are used during archive recovery. So something like the following
> > > change would need to be applied, I think. Patch attached.
>
> This has not been applied, right?

Yes.

> Can you send a complete patch?

Thanks for the ping!
Patch attached. As I argued upthread, IMO it's better to remove
the latter description from the doc and the patch does that.
Also the patch adds "mainly" into the former description.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao