Can anyone tell me why the solution I proposed is not acceptable, and why we have to invent a different one instead? The website redirect is good and all, but doesn't really solve the problem, and I still don't know what's wrong with just fixing the docs...
Also, while I'm at it, note that a search on common search engines for "postgres standby" takes you to (an old version of) the hot standby docs. Follow the link to the current docs. Then try to work out from there what exactly makes a server in "archive recovery" or "standby mode".
We need some <link ....> terms on "archive recovery" and "standby mode" there, and probably other places.
I have a draft patch that adds them and various related index cross-referencing in my tree to submit after the recovery.conf docs patch. Let me know if you think that might be worthwhile, 'cos I won't invest time in it if it's going to get reflexively blocked too.