On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > 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.
It could be done with a trivial tool, though. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
