On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 22:40 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > 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 don't think it is the same thing at all. This is a separate error and should be rejected as such. > I still think we need to fix this. Agreed, as a separate issue. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
