On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 25 November 2014 at 14:06, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>> On 19 November 2014 16:41, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>>>>> If we ask for PAUSE and we're not in HotStandby it just ignores it,
>>>>>> which means it changes into PROMOTE. My feeling is that we should
>>>>>> change that into a SHUTDOWN, not a PROMOTE.
>>>>>
>>>>> To me, that seems like a definite improvement.
>>>>
>>>> But changing the default will force us to set
>>>> action_at_recovery_target to 'promote'
>>>> when we want to just recover the database to the specified point.
>>>
>>> If you explicitly request pause and then can't pause, ISTM the action
>>> we actually perform shouldn't be the exact opposite of what was
>>> requested.
>>>
>>> So if the user explicitly requests pause and we aren't in HS then they
>>> should get Shutdown, which is closest action.
>>>
>>> If the user doesn't request anything at all then we can default to
>>> Promote, just like we do now.
>>
>> Yes, this is what I was trying to suggest. +1 to do that.
>
> Implemented.
>
> Patch committed.
Isn't it better to add the sample setting of this parameter into
recovery.conf.sample?
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
