Re: This is too implicit that recovery.signal will be removed

From: Eugen Konkov <konkove(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: konkove(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: This is too implicit that recovery.signal will be removed
Date: 2023-10-05 14:52:30
Message-ID: CAAwmOLw+ju=Y2osBboP37scx=znPF9JusjqOzUcWNmuENWmKvQ@mail.gmail.com
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Only here I found explicit mention that recovery.signal will be
removed: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-PITR-RECOVERY
see p8.

On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 10:06 AM PG Doc comments form
<noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/runtime-config-wal.html
> Description:
>
> Hello.
> On the page
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-wal.html
> Actual:
> >To start the server in targeted recovery mode, create a file called
> recovery.signal in the data directory. If both standby.signal and
> recovery.signal files are created, standby mode takes precedence. Targeted
> recovery mode ends when the archived WAL is fully replayed, or when
> recovery_target is reached. In this mode, the parameters from both this
> section and Section 20.5.6 will be used.
>
> Expected:
> >To start the server in targeted recovery mode, create a file called
> recovery.signal in the data directory. If both standby.signal and
> recovery.signal files are created, standby mode takes precedence. Targeted
> recovery mode ends and recovery.signal file is removed when the archived WAL
> is fully replayed, or when recovery_target is reached. In this mode, the
> parameters from both this section and Section 20.5.6 will be used. File
> 'recovery.signal' is not removed when `recovery_target_action` is
> *shutdown*.
>
> Overall I did not find page where I can read about all types of *.signal
> files and how to deal with them.

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