Re: Turning recovery.conf into GUCs

On 01/06/2015 04:42 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-01-06 16:33:36 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> F. Inability to remaster without restarting the replica.
> 
> That has pretty much nothing to do with the topic at hand.

It has *everything* to do with the topic at hand.  The *only* reason we
can't remaster without restarting is that recovery.conf is only read at
startup time, and can't be reloaded.

http://www.databasesoup.com/2014/05/remastering-without-restarting.html

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