On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:20:42AM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > And it's even worse if you use 9.3 pg_ctl against a 9.2 server: it > will create a filed called "fast_promote" and return success, but it > won't actually do anything. > > I think "promote" file should trigger the fast promotion, and the > filename to trigger the slow mode should be called > "fallback_promote" or "safe_promote" or something like that. There > wasn't any good reason to change the filename primarily used. It > might even break people's scripts for no good reason, if people are > creating the $PGDATA/promote file themselves without using pg_ctl. > > (I raised this back in April, but Simon argued strongly for the > current situation. I never understood why. > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/517798ae.30...@vmware.com)
+1 -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
