Re: Proposal for changes to recovery.conf API

From: Michael Banck <mbanck(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for changes to recovery.conf API
Date: 2016-09-01 06:21:16
Message-ID: 20160901062116.GC22545@nighthawk.caipicrew.dd-dns.de
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 05:15:59PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> <quote>Recover</quote> mode starts the server as a standby server which
> expects to receive changes from a primary/master server using physical
> streaming replication or is used for performing a recovery from
> backup.

I understand where this is coming from, but wouldn't "standby",
"replication" or something be more generally understood than "recover"?
Streaming replication got bolted on to recovery, but that seems like an
implementation detail by now.

Michael

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