Re: quoting and recovery.conf

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 16:20 +0100, Greg Stark wrote:

> My suggestion is we should fold all the parameters into
> postgresql.conf and treat recovery.conf as an additional
> postgresql.conf to read. It would allow any GUC. The only difference
> is that it would be moved out of the way automatically when the target
> is reached.

Good idea, needs a little fleshing out.

What do we do if recovery.conf and postgresql.conf have different
settings in them? Trigger reload at end of recovery? Presumably we would
also ignore server startup parameters in recovery.conf?

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