Re: Pause at end of recovery

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> These days we have pause_at_recovery_target, which lets us pause when
> we reach a PITR target. Is there a particular reason we don't have a
> way to pause at end of recovery if we *didn't* specify a target -
> meaning we let it run until the end of the archived log? While it's
> too late to change the target, I can see a lot of usescases where you
> don't want it to be possible to make changes to the database again
> until it has been properly verified - and keeping it up in readonly
> mode in that case can be quite useful...

Useful for what purpose? It' s possible to deny access in other ways already.

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