Re: Function to promote standby servers

Michael Paquier wrote:
> > In that vein, I propose a function pg_promote() to promote
> > physical standby servers.
> 
> No fundamental issues from me regarding the concept of being able to
> trigger a promotion remotely, so +1.  Do we want this capability as well
> for fallback_promote?  My gut tells me no, and that we ought to drop
> this option at some point in the future, still that's worth mentioning.
> 
> You may want to move PROMOTE_SIGNAL_FILE in a position where xlogfuncs.c
> could use it.

Good, idea; updated patch attached.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe