Re: recovery configuration parameters

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Fujii Masao wrote:
>> While the server configuration parameters are listed in
>> the index page, why not the recovery ones? It's very
>> inconvenient to be unable to reach the document of them
>> immediately when setting up the standby server.
>>
>> How about listing the recovery configuration parameters
>> in the index page?
>
> Agreed. This patch should do it.

Which patch?

> PS. I just noticed that the links in the index for GUCs take you to the
> section in the manual, not directly to the parameter. For example, when
> you click on the index term for "max_connections", it takes you to
> section "18.3.1 Connection Settings" (the link points to
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/runtime-config-connection.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-CONNECTION-SETTINGS),
> which begins with listen_addresses. max_connections is there a few
> paragraphs down, but I would've expected the link to point directly to
> description of the parameter.

I think that such a direct link is useful, but I'm not sure how.
Though I added the "zone" attribute into the "indexterm" tag for
"max_connections" as a trial, I was not able to get the expected
result.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center