Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> FWIW I'd rather keep plain promotion for a release or two. TBH, I have a >> bit of trust issues regarding the new method, and I'd like to be able to >> test potential issues against a stock postgres by doing a normal instead >> of a fast promotion.
> So we should add new option specifying the promotion mode, into pg_ctl? > Currently pg_ctl cannot trigger the normal promotion. It would be silly to add such an option if we want to remove the old mode in a release or two. I think what Andres is suggesting is to leave it as-is for 9.4 and then remove the old code in 9.5 or 9.6. Which seems prudent to me. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers