On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 8:08 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> So, we can know whether server is primary/standby by checking
> in_recovery, as opposed to knowing whether read-write which is done by
> checking transaction_read_only. So we can keep read-write as a synonym
> for "primary", and check in_recovery when used in servers that support
> the new GUC, and check transaction_read_only in older servers.
I think it would be better to have read-write and read-only check
trnasaction_read_only, and primary and standby can check the new
thing. There can never be any real advantage in having synonyms for
the same thing, but there can be an advantage to letting users choose
the behavior they want.
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