On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:27:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:20:42AM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> I think "promote" file should trigger the fast promotion, and the
> >> filename to trigger the slow mode should be called
> >> "fallback_promote" or "safe_promote" or something like that. There
> >> wasn't any good reason to change the filename primarily used. It
> >> might even break people's scripts for no good reason, if people are
> >> creating the $PGDATA/promote file themselves without using pg_ctl.
> >>
> >> (I raised this back in April, but Simon argued strongly for the
> >> current situation. I never understood why.
> >> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/517798AE.30203@vmware.com)
>
> > +1
>
> If we're going to change this in 9.3, it needs to happen *now*, as in
> the next couple hours, because I plan to wrap rc1 this afternoon.
> Please stop discussing and commit something.
FYI, Tom, I think Heikki is working on it now.
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