Re: Request for vote to move forward with recovery.conf overhaul

On 21 December 2012 19:46, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> There has been discussion in the past of removing or significantly
> changing the way streaming replication/point-in-time-recovery (PITR) is
> setup in Postgres. Currently the file recovery.conf is used, but that
> was designed for PITR and does not serve streaming replication well.
>
> This all should have been overhauled when streaming replication was
> added in 2010 in Postgres 9.0. However, time constraints and concern
> about backward compatibility has hampered this overhaul.
>
> At this point, backward compatibility seems to be hampering our ability
> to move forward. I would like a vote that supports creation of a new
> method for setting up streaming replication/point-in-time-recovery,
> where backward compatibility is considered only where it is minimally
> invasive.

Given that I've said all along that I want change, I'll vote for that,
especially since it is so reasonably worded.

I also want backwards compatibility, so I would like whoever does this
change to also spend some time on that, since it seems that the
balance of time/cost is good enough to make it sensible to do so. I
hope we can spend the time on that investigation, rather than further
debate around what we mean by the word minimally.

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