Re: recovery_connections cannot start (was Re: master in standby mode croaks)

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-04-23T21:43:00Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> So my proposal would be:
>
> wal_mode=crash/archive/standby
> archive_mode=on/off             # if on, wal_mode must be >= 'archive'
> archive_command='command'
> max_wal_senders=<integer>       # if > 0, wal_mode must be >= 'archive'

As a general design comment, I think we should avoid still having an
archive_mode GUC but having it do something different.  If we're going
to change the semantics, we should also change the name, maybe to
"archiving".

...Robert