Re: pgsql: Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2018-11-26T18:09:43Z

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Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf
- 2dedf4d9a899 12.0 cited

On 2018-Nov-26, Stephen Frost wrote:

> I would think we'd have the different GUCs and then the check functions
> would only validate that they're valid inputs and then when we get to
> the point where we're starting to do recovery we check and make sure
> we've been given a sane overall configuration- which means that only
> *one* is set, and it matches the recovery target requested.

I don't quite understand why it isn't sensible to specify more than one
and just stop recovery (or whatever) when at least one of them becomes
true.  Maybe I want to terminate just before commit of transaction
12345, but no later than 2018-11-11 12:47 in any case.

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