Re: PITR potentially broken in 9.2 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: PITR potentially broken in 9.2
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In response to Re: PITR potentially broken in 9.2  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 5 December 2012 14:33, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> Independent of this patch, I am slightly confused about the whole stop
> logic. Isn't the idea that you can stop/start/stop/start/... recovery?
> Because if !recoveryApply we break out of the whole recovery loop and
> are done with things.

You can, but by shutting down server, updating recovery target, then
restarting server.

That's not a beautiful design, its just waiting for someone to make
recovery targets changeable, which is best done when recovery.conf
parameters are in postgresql.conf

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