Re: Hot standby, recovery infra

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 20:35 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Hmm, another point of consideration is how this interacts with the 
> pause/continue. In particular, it was suggested earlier that you
> could 
> put an option into recovery.conf to start in paused mode. If you
> pause 
> recovery, and then stop and restart the server, and have that option
> in 
> recovery.conf, I would expect that when you enter consistent recovery 
> you're at the exact same paused location as before stopping the
> server. 
> The upshot of that is that we need to set minSafeStartPoint to that 
> exact location, at least when you pause & stop in a controlled
> fashion.

OK, makes sense.

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