Re: When is it safe to remove recovery.done?

From: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "John Scalia *EXTERN*" <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: When is it safe to remove recovery.done?
Date: 2014-07-23 09:19:35
Message-ID: A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B17D1F428@ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at
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John Scalia wrote:
> After successfully testing a failover between my primary and a standby server, the old recovery.conf
> file is renamed recovery.done. As this system is now the master, I don't see a
> need to keep that file around, but is it safe to remove it now?

It is safe to remove the file, but it doesn't hurt if you keep it (it may serve as
documentation of your latest recovery).

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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