Re: Parameter name standby_mode

Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>

From: Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-02-12T09:11:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Agreed. I've changed it now so that if primary_conninfo is not set, it
> doesn't try to establish a streaming connection. If you want to get the
> connection information from environment variables, you can use
> primary_conninfo=''.

Why not just remove the default:

If no primary_conninfo variable is set explicitly in the configuration
file, check the environment variables. If the environment variable is
not set, don't try to establish a connection.

?

Joachim