Re: Proposal for changes to recovery.conf API

On 9/6/16 8:07 AM, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
 >
>> Related cleanup
>> * Promotion signal file is now called "promote.trigger" rather than
>> just "promote"
>> * Remove user configurable "trigger_file" mechanism - use
>> "promote.trigger" for all cases
>
> I'm in favor of this.  I don't think that it's very hard for authors
> of backup tools to adapt to this new world, and I don't see that
> allowing configurability here does anything other than create more
> cases to worry about.

+1 from a backup tool author.

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-David
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