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Re: Standby accepts recovery_target_timeline setting?

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-09-26T20:48:30Z
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On 2019-09-25 22:21, David Steele wrote:
> While testing against PG12 I noticed the documentation states that
> recovery targets are not valid when standby.signal is present.
> 
> But surely the exception is recovery_target_timeline?  My testing
> confirms that this works just as in prior versions with standy_mode=on.

Or maybe we should move recovery_target_timeline to a different section?
 But which one?

I don't know if recovery_target_timeline is actually useful to change in
standby mode.

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Commits

  1. Make crash recovery ignore recovery_min_apply_delay setting.

  2. Make crash recovery ignore restore_command and recovery_end_command settings.

  3. Make crash recovery ignore recovery target settings.

  4. doc: Further clarify how recovery target parameters are applied

  5. doc: Add timeline as valid recovery target in standby.signal documentation