Re: 9.2.3 crashes during archive recovery

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
> At least in back-branches, I'd call this a pilot error. You can't turn a 
> master into a standby just by creating a recovery.conf file. At least 
> not if the master was not shut down cleanly first.
> ...
> I'm not sure that's worth the trouble, though. Perhaps it would be 
> better to just throw an error if the control file state is 
> DB_IN_PRODUCTION and a recovery.conf file exists.

+1 for that approach, at least until it's clear there's a market for
doing this sort of thing.  I think the error check could be
back-patched, too.
        regards, tom lane