From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: If recovery_target_timeline is set to 'latest' and standby mode |
Date: | 2011-03-07 19:28:58 |
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On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 20:24, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> On 07.03.2011 21:20, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 20:16, Heikki Linnakangas
>> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:
>>>
>>> If recovery_target_timeline is set to 'latest' and standby mode is
>>> enabled,
>>> periodically rescan the archive for new timelines, while waiting for new
>>> WAL
>>> segments to arrive. This allows you to set up a standby server that
>>> follows
>>> the TLI change if another standby server is promoted to master. Before
>>> this,
>>> you had to restart the standby server to make it notice the new timeline.
>>
>> Can we make recovery_target_timeline='latest' the default when we are
>> in standby mode? That would suddenly make it a lot easier to "repoint
>
>> a slave" after a switchover...
>
> Hmm, seems reasonable. 'latest' is what you usually want, at least in
> standby mode. Though it would be strange to have a different default
> depending on the value of another setting. Maybe we should change the
> default regardless of standby_mode?
Seems like a much narrower usecase in ordinary recovery mode, but we
could definitely change both..
> Wë́'d need a magic value to mean the current default behavior, to recover to
> the current timeline. 'current'?
I didn't realize we didn't already have that. In principle, i think we
should *always* be able to specify in a config file whatever comes out
as a default. There should be no magic behavior that cannot be
explicitly specified.
--
Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
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