Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Allow external recovery_config_directory

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> No, it *would* take effect. The parameter is set in a config file that
> is not part of the backup, so if you start the server from the backup
> then it doesn't know that the recovery_config_directory had been set
> and so it would read the recovery.conf written by pg_basebackup.

Are you saying pg_basebackup doesn't back up postgresql.conf?  I thought it did.

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