Greg,
> Put the stuff you used to insert into recovery.conf into postgresql.conf
> instead. If you don't like that, use another file and include it with
> one of the multiple options for that--same migration option I already
> suggested. Run "pg_ctl recovery"; under the hood that's actually
> creating standby.enabled instead of recovery.conf, but you don't have to
> know that. You'd suggested renaming it to reflect its most common usage
> now, and I thought that was quite sensible. It helps with the "things
> have changed, please drive carefully" feel too.
So for streaming replication, will I need to have a standby.enabled
file, or will there be a parameter in postgresql.conf (or included
files) which controls whether or not that server is a standby, available?
In the best of all possible worlds, I'd really like to have a GUC which
100% controls whether or not the current server is a standby.
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Josh Berkus
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