On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <is...@postgresql.org> wrote: >>> There are many. Tools I can name include pgpool, 2warm, PITRtools, but >>> there are also various tools from Sun, an IBM reseller I have >>> forgotten the name of, OmniTI and various other backup software >>> providers. Those are just the ones I can recall quickly. We've >>> encouraged people to write software on top and they have done so. >> >> Actually, just to correct this list: >> * there are no tools from Sun >> * pgPool2 does not deal with recovery.conf > > I'm not sure what you mean by "not deal with" but part of pgpool-II's > functionality assumes that we can easily generate recovery.conf. If > reconf.conf is integrated into postgresql.conf, we need to edit > postgresql.conf, which is a little bit harder than generating > recovery.conf, I think.
Since we haven't yet come up with a reasonable way of machine-editing postgresql.conf, this seems like a fairly serious objection to getting rid of recovery.conf. I wonder if there's a way we can work around that... *thinks a little* What if we modified pg_ctl to allow passing configuration parameters through to postmaster, so you could do something like this: pg_ctl start -c work_mem=8MB -c recovery_target_time='...' Would that meet pgpool's needs? (Sadly pg_ctl -c means something else right now, so we'd probably have to pick another option name, but you get the idea.) -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
