Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think we should add a TODO to parse recovery.conf with the same code
>> we use to parse postgresql.conf, or possibly merge the two files.
>> This issue was previously alluded to here:
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-04/msg00211.php
> And more than alluded to here:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/407d949e1002131017u657e4aefo2647c2cbf24fe7b4@mail.gmail.com
The main reason for having a separate recovery.conf file is that its
existence is what drives the setting of InArchiveRecovery. If we were
to devise some other trigger for that condition, it'd be possible to
fold all those settings in as GUC variables.
regards, tom lane