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Re: Proposal for changes to recovery.conf API

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-11-04T13:35:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 6:04 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I liked Heikki's suggestion (at some point quite a while ago now) of
>> recovery_target = 'xid 123' or recovery_target='lsn 0/723' or
>> whatever.
>
> My vote goes for having two separate parameters, because as we know
> that there will be always two fields in this parameter, ...

That's not even true today: when the target is immediate, it has no
associated parameter value.  And who knows what the future may hold?

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Robert Haas
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