--On 20. August 2016 12:41:48 -0400 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> So at this point I'm pretty baffled as to what the actual use-case is > here. I am tempted to say that a standalone backend should refuse to > start at all if a recovery.conf file is present. If we do want to > allow the case, we need some careful thought about what it should do. Well, the "use case" was a crashed hot standby at a customer site (it kept PANICing after restarting), where i decided to have a look through the recovery process with gdb. The exact PANIC was 2016-03-29 15:12:40 CEST [16097]: [26-1] user=,db=,xid=0,vxid=1/0 FATAL: unexpected GIN leaf action: 0 I had the idea that it was quick and dirty to use a single backend. I was surprised that this time it PANIC'ed differently.... That said, i'm okay if --single is not intended to bring up a hot standby. There are many other ways to debug such problems. -- Thanks Bernd -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers