On 1/18/15 8:16 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-01-18 22:02:13 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Andrew Gierth
>>> 2) in any event it is essentially deprecated in favour of standby_mode
>>> and therefore moving it to src/bin seems like a wrong move on two counts?
>> There were some discussions about that a couple of months ago, and the
>> conclusion was to not remove it. Please see here for more information:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/545946E9.8060504@gmx.net#545946E9.8060504@gmx.net
>
> Sure, but not removing doesn't imply moving it. The other tools don't
> have a replacement and are more or less actively maintained. I don't
> think that's really the case for pg_standby. We do *not* want to give
> it more credence by declaring it to be part of core.
I don't really care much, but the discussion appeared to indicate that
pg_standby currently does not have a full replacement.
