On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 2:52 AM David Steele <da...@pgmasters.net> wrote: > > Hackers, > > In versions < PG12 recovery_target_action has a behavior that appears to > be a bug, or is at least undocumented. If hot_standby = off and > recovery_target_action is not specified then the cluster will promote > when the target is found rather than shutting down as the documentation > seems to indicate. If recovery_target_action is explicitly set to pause > then the cluster will shutdown as expected.
Good catch! > In PG12 the shutdown occurs even when recovery_target_action is not > explicitly set. This seems like good behavior and it matches the > documentation as I read it. Agreed. > The question for the old versions: is this something that should be > fixed in the code or in the documentation? > > My vote is to make this explicit in the documentation, since changing > the recovery behavior in old versions could lead to nasty surprises. +1 to update the documentation. Regards, -- Fujii Masao
