Hello,
Reading a documentation regarding recovery.conf file I found that the
reason to store 'stand-by mode' configuration inside that file is not
clear.
IMHO, a little note in description of recovery.conf will clearify
the situation. Something like "a stand-by is submode of recover mode"
and that the file used during replication will help. Same as in
recovery.conf.sample file will be fine too.
What the community thinks about it?
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Aleksandr Parfenov
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