On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:27:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:20:42AM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > >> 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 > > If we're going to change this in 9.3, it needs to happen *now*, as in > the next couple hours, because I plan to wrap rc1 this afternoon. > Please stop discussing and commit something.
FYI, Tom, I think Heikki is working on it now. -- 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
