Re: Add docs stub for recovery.conf

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-12-02T20:26:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Dec  2, 2020 at 02:47:13PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> * David G. Johnston (david.g.johnston@gmail.com) wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 11:42 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > > The downside is you end up with X-1 dummy sections just to allow for
> > > references to old syntax, and you then have to find them all and remove
> > > them when you implement the proper solution.  I have no intention of
> > > applying such an X-1 fix.
> >
> > X = 2; seems like a strong objection for such a minor issue.  The status
> > quo seems worse than that.
> 
> I've been thinking about this and I think I'm on Craig and David's side-
> having something cleaner, and clearer, than just http redirects and such
> would be good for these cases and I don't think we are going to end up
> with so many of them that it ends up becoming an issue.

We were not going to use just redirects --- we were going to create a
page that had all the renames listed, with links to the new names.

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Commits

  1. Add a docs section for obsoleted and renamed functions and settings