Re: Proposal for changes to recovery.conf API

From: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: 2016-09-06 14:11:51
Message-ID: 77122541-8ef8-89a5-b8f7-361af007cd02@pgmasters.net
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On 9/6/16 8:07 AM, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Related cleanup
>> * Promotion signal file is now called "promote.trigger" rather than
>> just "promote"
>> * Remove user configurable "trigger_file" mechanism - use
>> "promote.trigger" for all cases
>
> I'm in favor of this. I don't think that it's very hard for authors
> of backup tools to adapt to this new world, and I don't see that
> allowing configurability here does anything other than create more
> cases to worry about.

+1 from a backup tool author.

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-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net

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