On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:02 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> Yep, to automatically delete backup_label and continue recovery seems to be
> dangerous. How about just emitting FATAL error when neither restore_command
> nor primary_conninfo is supplied and backup_label exists? This seems to be
> simpler than your proposed patch (i.e., check whether REDO location exists).
>
Either is fine with me.
Do users have any expectation that they can restore a backup without
using recovery.conf by merely having the WAL segments in pg_xlog?
Regards,
Jeff Davis