On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> If I'm understanding your concern correctly, you're worried about the
> case of a cold standby where the database is only replaying WAL but not
> configured to come up as a hot standby and therefore PQping() won't ever
> succeed?
I think we've changed the defaults to make things better for an
attended startup and worse for an unattended startup. But I think
most PostgreSQL startups are probably unattended.
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