On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Murthy Nunna <mnunna(at)fnal(dot)gov> wrote:
> While I understand your explanation, I feel I am still missing
> something. IMHO, when I say pause using “pause” setting, no matter what, I
> expect the recovery to wait for manual intervention.
>
Have you explored using "pg_xlog_replay_pause()" and
"pg_xlog_replay_resume()"? See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-RECOVERY-CONTROL-TABLE