Re: Changing recovery.conf parameters into GUCs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 07/05/2013 10:09 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:

Yeah, it would be good to revive this thread now, which is the

beginning of the development cycle. As of now, just to recall

everybody, an agreement on this patch still needs to be found... Simon

is concerned with backward compatibility. Greg presented a nice spec

some time ago (Robert and I liked it) which would break backward

compatibility but allow to begin with a fresh infrastructure.

As folks know, I favor Smith's approach.  However, as far as I can find,
GSmith never posted a patch for his version.