Re: recovery_connections cannot start (was Re: master in standby mode croaks)

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> Ok, that brings us back to square one. We could still add the wal_mode
>> GUC to explicitly control how much WAL is written (replacing
>> recovery_connections in the primary), I think it would still make the
>> system easier to explain. But it would add an extra hurdle to enabling
>> archiving, you'd have to set wal_mode='archive', archive_mode='on', and
>> archive_command. I'm not sure if that would be better or worse than the
>> current situation.
>
> I wasn't either, that's why I gave up.  It didn't seem worth doing a
> major GUC reorganization on the eve of beta unless there was a clear
> win.  I think there may be a way to improve this but I don't think
> it's we should take the time now to figure out what it is.  Let's
> revisit it for 9.1, and just improve the error reporting for now.

+1

Regards,

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