Greetings,
* Ian Barwick (ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> However, going back to the original scenario (cascaded standby set up using
> "pg_basebackup --write-recovery-conf") there would now be a warning emitted
> the first time anyone executes ALTER SYSTEM (about duplicate "primary_conninfo"
> entries) which would not have occured in Pg11 and earlier (and which will
> no doubt cause consternation along the lines "how did my postgresql.auto.conf
> get modified in an unexpected way? OMG? Bug? Was I hacked?").
No, I don't think we should end up in a situation where this happens.
I agree that this implies making pg_basebackup more intelligent when
it's dealing with that file but I simply don't have a lot of sympathy
about that, it's not news to anyone who has been paying attention.
Thanks,
Stephen