On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > On 25.03.2011 03:00, Daniel Farina wrote: >> >> Here is the mechanism: I want to author a recovery.conf to perform >> some amount of restore_command or streaming replication based >> recovery, but I do *not* want to generate a new timeline. Rather, I >> want to stay in hot standby mode to allow read-only connections. > > That's exactly what the standby mode is for. Add "standby_mode=on" to > recovery.conf, and the server will do exactly that. > > Perhaps the documentation is not clear on this. Any suggestions on how to > improve that?
I was actually pretty well aware of this option, if that is the case, I fat-fingered something or had a thinko (mental bit flip?) and then what I thought I knew about standby_mode=on was invalidated (perhaps incorrectly). I will confirm tomorrow. -- fdr -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
