Re: replay pause vs. standby promotion

On Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:00:54 +0300
Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> > I want to start this discussion because this is related to the patch
> > (propoesd at the thread [1]) that I'm reviewing. It does that partially,
> > i.e., prefers the promotion only when the pause is requested by
> > recovery_target_action=pause. But I think that it's reasonable and
> > more consistent to do that whether whichever the pause is requested
> > by pg_wal_replay_pause() or recovery_target_action.  
> 
> +1.

+1

And pg_wal_replay_pause () should probably raise an error explaining the
standby ignores the pause because of ongoing promotion.