On 2/25/19 11:20 PM, Christophe Pettus wrote:
On Feb 25, 2019, at 11:24, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote:
Aren't they going to need to make a change for v12 now anyway?
Hopefully they're regularly testing their backups by doing a restore of
them, and dropping a recovery.conf into the directory of a v12 system
after restore will do exactly nothing and they'll get errors complaining
about how they need to provide a restore_command.
It varies with the installation, but backups are 100% - epsilon automated, while restores
are very frequently done via runbook. Changing a runbook is institutionally less
contentious, and the change is more or less "drop the file into mumble/conf.d rather
than mumble", which is less of a break.
This is true but is becoming far less true over time. Automation of
recovery is now very common -- as it should be. Backups should be
tested regularly and recovery should not be a scary thing that is done
at 2am from an outdated runbook.
The recovery.conf change will have serious impact when it arrives in PG12.
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-David
da...@pgmasters.net
