Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The idea of relying on the existence of recovery.conf to determine
>> whether we should continue recovery forever or switch to normal
>> running seems somewhat klunky to me. It mixes up settings with
>> control information. Maybe the control information should move to
>> pg_control, and the settings to postgresql.conf. *waves hands*
> You mean to move standby_mode to postgresql.conf, and determine
> whether the server should start in standby mode or not by considering
> of standby_mode and the status information in pg_control?
I think keeping the status information in a transient text file may
still be a good design choice. If you push it into pg_control it will
be impossible to modify by hand.
regards, tom lane
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