"Albe Laurenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wouldn't it be a good thing > for the startup process to ignore (and rename) the backup_label > file if no recovery.conf is present?
No, it certainly wouldn't. I don't see why we should simplify the bizarre case you're talking about at the price of putting land mines under the feet of people who are actually trying to do a restore. It hasn't lost any data for you, and it gave you a correct HINT, so I don't have a problem with the current behavior. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match