On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> 2. standby_mode becomes an ENUM: "off,standby,pitr". It can be reset on
> server reload or through "pg_ctl promote"
I'm a little bit confused by the way we're dragging standby_mode into
this conversation. If you're using pg_standby, you can set
standby_mode=off and still have a standby. If you're using a simple
recovery command that just copies files, you need to set
standby_mode=on if you don't want the standby to exit recovery and
promote. But I think of standby_mode as meaning "should we use the
internal standby loop rather than depending on an external tool?"
rather than "should we become a standby?".
Maybe I'm confused.
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