> Let me also add that I am tired of having recovery.conf improvement
> stalled by backward compatibility concerns. At this point, let's just
> trash recovery.conf backward compatibility and move on.
>
> And I don't want to hear complaints about tool breakage either. These are
> external tools, not shipped with community Postgres, and they will just
have
> to adjust. I will be glad to beat all complainants into the
> ground for the good of the community. ;-) We just can't operate like
> this, and if we allowed these things to block us in the past, Postgres
would be
> a royal mess today!
>
> At this point backward compatibility has paralized us from fixing a
> recovery.conf API that everyone agrees is non-optimal, and this has gone
on
> for multiple major releases. I don't care what we have to do, just clean
this
> up for 9.3!
>
+1
And the sooner we do it before release, the more time will those external
tools have to adjust.
Regards
Petr Jelinek