On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes. More precisely, smart shutdown during recovery does not complete
>>> until recovery ends.
>>
>> Well, I don't think we should let smart shutdown just never terminate
>> when standby_mode = on. That's really a minefield for the unwary. I
>> think we either need to make it work, or somehow give the user an
>> error that says "try a different shutdown mode".
>
> It also seems dangerous to let someone think they have a standby
> database ready to go and the minute they need it -- it shuts down....
LOL.
Yeah, that would not be cool.
...Robert
