Simon, All, The new approach seems fine to me; I haven't looked at the code. If Tom doesn't feel like it's overly complicated, then this seems like a good compromise.
The desire to move recovery.conf/trigger to a different directory is definitely wanted by our Debian contingent. Right now, the fact that Debian has all .confs in /etc/, but that it doesn't work to relocate recovery.conf, is a constant source of irritation. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers