On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 14:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Does this conclusion mean that changing pg_standby is no longer
> >> on the table for 8.4? It certainly smells more like a new feature
> >> than a bug fix.
>
> > This whole thing can be considered to be a new feature. It's working as
> > designed. But people seem to be surprised about the current behavior (me
> > included), and we don't currently provide the behavior that most people
> > actually want. I think we should fix it for 8.4.
>
> Well, that's okay by me if it can be done in a timely fashion. Bear in
> mind that we are planning to wrap beta2 not much more than 24 hours from
> now.
I'll write it now then, so it can be reviewed tomorrow.
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