On 20 December 2012 19:29, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> At this point backward compatibility has paralized us from fixing a
> recovery.conf API that everyone agrees is non-optimal, and this has
> gone on for multiple major releases. I don't care what we have to do,
> just clean this up for 9.3!
The main stall at this point is that the developer who wrote that
patch no longer spends much time working on Postgres. AFAICS there is
nobody working on this for 9.3 mainly because its not a priority, nor
will implementing that fix the OP's request.
There is no paralysis because there never was a blocker, only a
request for backwards compatibility, which is easily possible to
implement.
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