On Apr 27, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 15:10 +0200, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Treating the string "true" as a special case seems like a kludge to
>>> me. Maybe a robust set of internal commands wouldn't be a kludge,
>>> but
>>> that's not what's being proposed here. I guess it's just a matter
>>> of
>>> opinion.
>>
>> I don't see how to have internal commands without having special
>> cases
>> for the setting, and I did propose "pg_archive_bypass" as the name. I
>> guess the implementation would be what Simon was talking about,
>> though.
>>
>> I don't see "true" as meaningful in the context of an
>> archive_command=85
>
> Saying "its a kludge" doesn't really address the issue and goes
> nowhere
> towards fixing it. If we don't like the proposal, fine, then what is
> the
> alternative solution?
I proposed one upthread.
...Robert
