On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> One idea; starting archive recovery with standby_mode=on meets your needs?
>
> I haven't tested, but probably, yes. But in that case, why do we need
> the pause_at_recovery_target *at all*? It's basically overloaded
> functionality already, but I figured it was set up that way to keep
> replication and recovery a bit separated?
AFAIK, when standby_mode = on, archive recovery pauses only at end of WAL files.
When recovery target is specified and archive recovery reaches the
target, it doesn't
pause. OTOH, when pause_at_recovery_target is set, archive recovery pauses only
at the target but not end of WAL files. Neither can cover all the usecases. So
pause_at_recovery_target was implemented.
Regards,
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