On 24 January 2013 17:44, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> At replay, an end-of-recovery record should be a signal to the hot standby
>> mechanism that there are no transactions running in the master at that
>> point, same as a shutdown checkpoint.
>
> I had a reason why I didn't do that, but it seems to have slipped my mind.
>
> If I can't remember, I'll add it.
I think it was simply to keep things simple and avoid bugs in this release.
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