Re: Proposal for Recover mode in pg_ctl (in 8.0)

I was thinking that even mildly experienced folks could benefit from a 
helpful sanity check. Typically the need to recover a system never comes 
at a good time, and features that help prevent silly mistakes are a 
great stress saver.

As an aside, while testing recovery during pre beta, I think I probably 
"forgot" to put in a recovery.conf about 1 time in 10. Now I was using a 
small database cluster tar'ed up in /tmp, so no big deal, but if it had 
been a 100G beast that had to come off tape ....

regards

Mark

Tom Lane wrote:

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>I can't get very excited about this approach, because it only protects
>those people who (a) use pg_ctl to start the postmaster (not everyone)
>and (b) carefully follow the recovery directions (which the people you
>are worried about are very bad at, by hypothesis).
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