On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Joachim Wieland wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yeah, even if primary_conninfo is not given, the standby tries to invoke
>>> walreceiver by using the another connection settings (environment variables
>>> or defaults). This is intentional behavior, and would make the setup of SR
>>> easier. So I'd like to leave it be.
>>
>> On the other hand, if it has to use defaults for the target host/port,
>> chances are high that either it connects to the wrong host/port or
>> that SR is just not wanted :-)
>
> Agreed. I've changed it now so that if primary_conninfo is not set, it
> doesn't try to establish a streaming connection. If you want to get the
> connection information from environment variables, you can use
> primary_conninfo=''.
If standby_mode is enabled, and neither primary_conninfo nor restore_command
are set, the standby would get stuck. How about forbidding (i.e., causing a
FATAL message) this wrong setting?
Regards,
--
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
