Re: recovery.conf location - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fujii Masao
Subject Re: recovery.conf location
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Msg-id AANLkTikuRXM21qKLUuiMb9ZQ11oqZbchc5iOo4V1+tMv@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: recovery.conf location  (Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: recovery.conf location  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Maybe i'm missing something but this would be a problem if we put a
> trigger file and the recovery.conf gets renamed to recovery.done, no?
> at least that would be a problem for the standbys that still need to
> be standbys

That's not problem unless more than one standbys become master at the
same time. Since recovery.conf is read by standby only at the start unless
it's triggered, already-started standbys can work even if recovery.conf is
renamed to recovery.done. Though it's somewhat tricky..

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center


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