Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: >> One of the biggest current complaints about recovery.conf from >> Debian/Ubuntu users is the fact that it lives in $PGDATA. Won't we just >> get the same thing here?
I don't think so, see below. > I don't think that's the same case, but ... why exactly don't they like > recovery.conf, and can you show that the location of the file has > anything to do with the underlying complaint? Personally I bet it's > more about the confusion between configuration and triggering functions. > Until we can get those things separated, using recovery.conf to argue > about file locations will result in nothing but confusion and bad > design. I think it's all about having a user-edited configuration file somewhere else than /etc, and that keeping the triggering functions separated from the setup itself would be a good thing to have. I bet that if some facts and links are necessary they will appear soon, now is not a right time for me to be searching for those facts… Regards, -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
