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Re: unite recovery.conf and postgresql.conf

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-09-20T17:13:00Z
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  1. Restructure error handling in reading of postgresql.conf.

On 9/20/11 10:09 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I like the idea of some kind of sentinel file that tells the server to
> start up in recovery mode.  But instead of having the user remove it
> to cause a promotion, I think the server should remove it when it does
> promote.  That's more like what we've done in the past, and it ties in
> very nicely with what pg_ctl promote already does.

Yes, I agree that that is a superior approach.

And then we could keep the trigger_file configuration parameter for
backwards compatibility, with intent to depreciate it after a couple
more Postgres versions.

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Josh Berkus
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