Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think a different name would help. The best idea I can come up with
>> on the spur of the moment is "allow_standby_queries", but I'm not sure
>> that can't be improved on. Comments?
> One objection to that name is that it also works during archive
> recovery, like during PITR, which is not a standby server. But that's
> probably a rare use case.
Huh, that is an interesting point. I think it might eventually be a
common use case: when you're trying to determine where to stop a PITR
recovery, it would be really nice to be able to roll forward to some
point, pause the recovery, and then snoop around in the database in
a read-only fashion before deciding whether to advance further. We
don't currently have a good mechanism for the pause-and-resume bit
but I bet something like walreceiver could be built to do that.
The "snoop around" part is already handled nicely by HS.
> +1 on changing it to something.
Any thoughts on what?
regards, tom lane
