"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>> * unite recovery.conf and postgresql.conf
>>>
>>> This one also seems to be lacking consensus more than anything else.
>>> What do we do about that?
>> AFAIR, the only person objecting is Simon. I'm not necessarily saying
>> that means we should drive it in over his objections, but OTOH there
>> were quite a few people who spoke in favor of it and we shouldn't
>> ignore those voices either.
> The problem is, it will break tools. I was one of the people that
> supported Simon in his argument against. Not going to cause a huge stink
> but it is something to consider.
Yeah, but it's those same tools that will benefit from a cleaner
definition. Sometimes it doesn't pay to be slaves to backwards
compatibility.
regards, tom lane