Re: [HACKERS] recovery_target_time = 'now' is not an error but stillimpractical setting

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Piotr Stefaniak
<postgres@piotr-stefaniak.me> wrote:
> On 2017-08-17 11:24, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> Your suggestion of "furthest" is already the default behaviour.
>>
>> Why are you using 'now'? Why would you want to pick a randomly
>> selected end time?
>
> The idea in both cases was to stop the recovery in order to prevent the
> standby from selecting new timeline. I want to be able to continue the
> recovery from future WAL files.  "Furthest" really meant "as far as
> possible without completing recovery".

Can you use recovery_target_action='shutdown' instead?

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