I discovered tonight that if you shut down a server, create recovery.conf with standby_mode = 'on', and start it back up again, you get this:
LOG: database system was shut down at 2010-03-30 22:34:09 EDT LOG: entering standby mode FATAL: recovery connections cannot start because the recovery_connections parameter is disabled on the WAL source server LOG: startup process (PID 22980) exited with exit code 1 LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure Now, you might certainly argue that this is a stupid thing to do (my motivation was to test some stuff) but certainly it's fair to say that error message is darn misleading, since in fact recovery_connections was NOT disabled. I believe this is the same "start up from a shut down checkpoint" problem that's been discussed previously so I won't belabor the point other than to say that I still think we need to fix this. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
