Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Bernd Helmle <maili...@oopsware.de> wrote: >> 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.
> This patch is still on the CF app: > https://commitfest.postgresql.org/10/610/ > Even after thinking about it, my opinion is still the same. Let's > prevent a standalone backend to start if it sees recovery.conf. > Attached is a patch and the CF entry is switched as ready for > committer to move on. Hm, StartupXLOG seems like a pretty random place to check that, especially since doing it there requires an extra stat() call. Why didn't you just make readRecoveryCommandFile() error out? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers