On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It also strikes me that anything
>> that is based on augmenting the walsender/walreceiver protocol leaves
>> anyone who is using WAL shipping out in the cold. I'm not clear from
>> the comments you or Simon have made how important you think that use
>> case still is.
>
> archive_timeout > 0 works just fine at generating files even when
> quiet, or if it does not, it is a bug.
>
> So I don't understand your comments, please explain.
If the standby has restore_command set but not primary_conninfo, then
it will never make a direct connection to the master. So anything
that's based on extending that protocol won't get used in that case.
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