Re: Feature Request: pg_replication_master()

On Thursday, December 20, 2012 3:50 AM Joshua Berkus wrote:
> 
> > It stalled because the patch author decided not to implement the
> > request to detect recovery.conf in data directory, which allows
> > backwards compatibility.
> 
> Well, I don't think we had agreement on how important backwards
> compatibility for recovery.conf was, particularly not on the whole
> recovery.conf/recovery.done functionality and the wierd formatting of
> recovery.conf.
> 
> However, with "include_if_exists" directives in postgresql.conf, or
> "include_dir", that would be easy to work around.  Don't we have
> something like that planned for SET PERSISTENT?

Yes in SET PERSISTENT patch, it uses "include_dir".

I wonder why can't we get this information from WALRcvData structure?
It has the required information.

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.