Retire pg_standby.
Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Retire pg_standby. pg_standby was useful more than a decade ago, but now it is obsolete. It has been proposed that we retire it many times. Now seems like a good time to finally do it, because "waiting restore commands" are incompatible with a proposed recovery prefetching feature. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201029024412.GP5380%40telsasoft.com Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Files
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| contrib/Makefile | modified | +0 −1 |
| contrib/pg_standby/.gitignore | deleted | +0 −1 |
| contrib/pg_standby/Makefile | deleted | +0 −20 |
| contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c | deleted | +0 −907 |
| doc/src/sgml/contrib.sgml | modified | +3 −4 |
| doc/src/sgml/filelist.sgml | modified | +0 −1 |
| doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml | modified | +3 −14 |
| doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml | deleted | +0 −394 |
| doc/src/sgml/ref/pgarchivecleanup.sgml | modified | +0 −7 |
| src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm | modified | +2 −2 |
Documentation touched
Discussion
- [PATCH] remove pg_archivecleanup and pg_standby 16 messages · 2020-10-29 → 2021-01-29