Re: pgsql: Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: pgsql: Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf
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Msg-id 20181126131640.GD14598@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: pgsql: Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> What is the reason for allowing multiple recovery_target_* settings and
> taking the last one?

This came originally to check that recovery.conf handles correctly its
recovery targets when multiple ones are defined with the last one
winning, as users may want to append additional targets in an existing
recovery.conf.  I have not checked the code in details, but I think that
we should be careful to keep that property, even with EXEC_BACKEND.
--
Michael

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