Re: Reading recovery.conf earlier

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 10:13 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Reading the file separately in each process would cause trouble with
>> PGC_POSTMASTER params. All backends must agree on their values.
> 
> Looking at the parameters in recovery.conf I don't believe they would
> cause problems if read twice. So I think reading file twice would still
> be simplest way forwards.

Yeah, I don't know if that's an issue for recovery.conf, I was just
pointing out that that's one reason it's done that way for postgresql.conf.

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