Re: Proposal for changes to recovery.conf API

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2016-12-18T13:11:34Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 02:02:58PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>     >     Again, I am fine putting this as a subsection of the release notes,
>     but
>     >     let's not pretend it is some extra section we can remove in five
>     years.
>     >
>     >
>     > Depends on what we decide to do about it, but sure, it could certainly
>     turn
>     > into another section that we keep around (whether as part of the release
>     notes,
>     > or as a separate "upgrade steps" section or something).
> 
>     I suggest whatever we do, we place the information in a permanent
>     location that isn't moved or removed.
> 
> 
> 
> +1. Absolutely. That's a very important point.

That is really my only point --- wherever you put it, expect it to live
there forever.

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