Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Does this conclusion mean that changing pg_standby is no longer
>> on the table for 8.4? It certainly smells more like a new feature
>> than a bug fix.
> This whole thing can be considered to be a new feature. It's working as
> designed. But people seem to be surprised about the current behavior (me
> included), and we don't currently provide the behavior that most people
> actually want. I think we should fix it for 8.4.
Well, that's okay by me if it can be done in a timely fashion. Bear in
mind that we are planning to wrap beta2 not much more than 24 hours from
now.
regards, tom lane