Re: pgsql: doc: Further clarify how recovery target parameters are applied - Mailing list pgsql-committers

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 6:10 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>
> doc: Further clarify how recovery target parameters are applied
>
> Recovery target parameters are all applied even in standby mode.  The
> previous documentation mostly wished they were not but this was never
> the case.

Thanks for improving the documentation.

+     In this mode, the parameters from both this section and <xref
+     linkend="runtime-config-wal-recovery-target"/> will be used.  Parameters
+     from <xref linkend="runtime-config-replication-standby"/> will not be
+     used.

The latter description seems not true. hot_standby and
max_standby_archive_delay in "runtime-config-replication-standby"
are used during archive recovery. So something like the following
change would need to be applied, I think. Patch attached.

      In this mode, the parameters from both this section and <xref
      linkend="runtime-config-wal-recovery-target"/> will be used.  Parameters
      from <xref linkend="runtime-config-replication-standby"/> will not be
-     used.
+     used (<varname>hot_standby</varname> and
+     <varname>max_standby_archive_delay</varname>).
     </para>

Regards,

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Fujii Masao