On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> I don't think it's clear, or intuitive for users.  In SR, recovery is
> *never* done, so smart shutdown never completes (even if the master is
> shut down, when I tested it).

If you specify the trigger_file parameter in the recovery.conf, the presence
of the trigger file would complete recovery. So the existing smart shutdown
waits for it to be created. I agree that this behavior is somewhat confusing
for users.

> HOWEVER, I do believe this is an issue we could live with for 9.0 if
> it's going to lead to a whole lot of additional debugging of SR.  But if
> it's an easy fix, it'll avoid a lot of complaints on pgsql-general.

I think that the latter statement is right.

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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