On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:50:38 PM EDT Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 3/17/17 13:56, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote:
> > Currently, clients wishing to know when the server exits hot standby
> > have to resort to polling, which is often suboptimal.
> >
> > This adds the new "in_hot_standby" GUC variable that is reported via
> > a ParameterStatus message.
>
> The terminology chosen here is not very clear. What is the opposite
> of "in hot standby"? Warm standby? Cold standby? Not standby at
> all? Promoted to primary (writable)?
The opposite means primary. I can flip the GUC name to "is_primary", if
that's clearer.
Elvis