On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 1:41 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> So at this point I'm pretty baffled as to what the actual use-case is
> here.
It is easier to attach a debugger in this case to analyze the problem?
> I am tempted to say that a standalone backend should refuse to
> start at all if a recovery.conf file is present. If we do want to
> allow the case, we need some careful thought about what it should do.
+1 for preventing an instance in --single mode to start if
recovery.conf is present. It is better to put safeguards than getting
unwanted behaviors.
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Michael