Re: master in standby mode croaks

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 22:40 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I discovered tonight that if you shut down a server, create
> recovery.conf with standby_mode = 'on', and start it back up again,
> you get this:
>
> LOG: database system was shut down at 2010-03-30 22:34:09 EDT
> LOG: entering standby mode
> FATAL: recovery connections cannot start because the
> recovery_connections parameter is disabled on the WAL source server
> LOG: startup process (PID 22980) exited with exit code 1
> LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure
>
> Now, you might certainly argue that this is a stupid thing to do (my
> motivation was to test some stuff) but certainly it's fair to say that
> error message is darn misleading, since in fact recovery_connections
> was NOT disabled. I believe this is the same "start up from a shut
> down checkpoint" problem that's been discussed previously so I won't
> belabor the point other than to say that

I don't think it is the same thing at all. This is a separate error and
should be rejected as such.

> I still think we need to fix this.

Agreed, as a separate issue.

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