On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 6:14 PM Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Currently, the server shuts down with a FATAL error (added by commit > [1]) when the recovery target isn't reached. This can cause a server > availability problem, especially in case of disaster recovery (geo > restores) where the primary was down and the user is doing a PITR on a > server lying in another region where it had missed to receive few of > the last WAL files required to reach the recovery target. In this > case, users might want the server to be available rather than a no > server. With the commit [1], there's no way to achieve what users > wanted.
if users don't mind if the recovery target is reached or not isn't it better to simply don't specify a target and let the recovery go as far as possible?
