Re: Changing recovery.conf parameters into GUCs

Robert, Simon, All,

On 04/01/2013 04:51 AM, Robert Haas wrote:> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at
11:48 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> a) recovery parameters are made into GUCs (for which we have a patch
>> from Fujii)
>> b) all processes automatically read recovery.conf as the last step in
>> reading configuration files, if it exists, even if data_directory
>> parameter is in use (attached patch)
>> c) we trigger archive recovery by the presence of either
>> recovery.conf or recovery.trigger in the data directory. At the end,
>> we rename to recovery.done just as we do now. This means that any
>> parameters put into recovery.conf will not be re-read when we SIGHUP
>> after end of recovery. Note that recovery.trigger will NOT be read for
>> parameters and is assumed to be zero-length.
>> (minor patch required)
>
> I still prefer Greg Smith's proposal.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4EE91248.8010505@2ndQuadrant.com

So, this seems to still be stalled. Is there a way forward on this
which won't cause us to wait *another* version before we have working
replication GUCs?

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