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From Masahiko Sawada
Subject Re: Skip recovery/standby signal files in pg_basebackup
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Msg-id CAD21AoCF6jevrVdwoxuu_qAFL=N-Uk3b4zC53Tav7n2d4Ab9Ww@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Skip recovery/standby signal files in pg_basebackup  (David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>)
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On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 3:53 AM David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
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> Hackers,
>
> Restoring these files could cause surprising behaviors so it seems best
> to let the restore process create them when needed.

It's not a normal situation where a running postgres has either
recovery.signal or standby.signal but I'm +1 on this change for
safety.

The patch looks good to me.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada

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