> The point I'm trying to make is that it seems like this discussion is
> getting driven entirely by the standby case, without remembering that
> recovery.conf was originally designed for, and is still used in,
> a significantly different use-case. Maybe we had better take two
> steps back and think about the implications for the archive-recovery
> case.
I think we should take that into consideration, sure. But it should not
be in the driver's seat for things like nomenclature. Far more people
use replication than use PITR.
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