Re: Parameter name standby_mode

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> If they want to implement the warm standby using the (new) built-in
> logic to keep retrying restore_command, they would set
> standby_mode='on'. standby_mode='on' doesn't imply streaming replication.
>
> If you want to use pg_standby or similar tools, then you would indeed
> set standby_mode='off', but I think that makes sense because you're
> implementing the standby functionality outside the server in that case.

Okay, got it now with your explanations.

For some reason it didn't work before with standby_mode = 'on' (it
does now) and the warning "FATAL: sorry, too many standbys already"
gave me a first suspicion that SR is the only use case for this. Then
I checked the docs and there it said "If this parameter is on, the
streaming replication is enabled". I understand now what it does and
that it is a prerequisite but that there is also a non-SR use case...
So the name is okay for me :-)

Thanks again,
Joachim