Re: s/recovery_connections/allow_standby_queries/, or something like that? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: s/recovery_connections/allow_standby_queries/, or something like that?
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Msg-id AANLkTinLbbuJ2IO8vlwLyB3d48DEFiDgCjn5vHoRH6IY@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: s/recovery_connections/allow_standby_queries/, or something like that?  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think a different name would help.  The best idea I can come up with
>> on the spur of the moment is "allow_standby_queries", but I'm not sure
>> that can't be improved on.  Comments?
>
> One objection to that name is that it also works during archive
> recovery, like during PITR, which is not a standby server.  But that's
> probably a rare use case.

Gee, I think of it as a standby regardless of whether it's created
using archiving or SR.  Do we not have a generic term that covers both
cases?

> +1 on changing it to something.

Boy, my blog post is going to have a darn short shelf life (see the
last paragraph).

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2010/04/write-ahead-logging-in-postgresql-90.html

...Robert


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