Re: Allow users to choose what happens when recovery target is not reached

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 6:14 PM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Currently, the server shuts down with a FATAL error (added by commit
> [1]) when the recovery target isn't reached. This can cause a server
> availability problem, especially in case of disaster recovery (geo
> restores) where the primary was down and the user is doing a PITR on a
> server lying in another region where it had missed to receive few of
> the last WAL files required to reach the recovery target. In this
> case, users might want the server to be available rather than a no
> server. With the commit [1], there's no way to achieve what users
> wanted.

if users don't mind if the recovery target is reached or not isn't it
better to simply don't specify a target and let the recovery go as far
as possible?