Re: PITR potentially broken in 9.2

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PITR potentially broken in 9.2
Date: 2012-12-05 14:54:17
Message-ID: CA+U5nMLFUiDdn7fb8umPXDEfLEYhcnxoX88Cv2U_bkTC6cLmtw@mail.gmail.com
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On 5 December 2012 14:33, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> Independent of this patch, I am slightly confused about the whole stop
> logic. Isn't the idea that you can stop/start/stop/start/... recovery?
> Because if !recoveryApply we break out of the whole recovery loop and
> are done with things.

You can, but by shutting down server, updating recovery target, then
restarting server.

That's not a beautiful design, its just waiting for someone to make
recovery targets changeable, which is best done when recovery.conf
parameters are in postgresql.conf

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