X-Original-To: pgsql-patches-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632A9D1B178 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:10:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54904-10 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:10:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.coretech.co.nz (coretech.co.nz [202.36.204.41]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0F1D1B1AE for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:10:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 25896 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2004 22:10:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coretech.co.nz) (10.0.10.28) by 0 with SMTP; 20 Jul 2004 22:10:03 -0000 Message-ID: <40FD9819.50401@coretech.co.nz> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:09:29 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Klaus Naumann Cc: markw@osdl.org, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, simon@2ndquadrant.com, pgman@candle.pha.pa.us, pgsql-patches@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Point in Time Recovery References: <200407201536.i6KFa7122392@mail.osdl.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200407/348 X-Sequence-Number: 12018 I'd vote for it as a clarity factor too. Klaus Naumann wrote: >On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 markw@osdl.org wrote: > > > >>FATAL: unrecognized configuration parameter "archive_mode" >> >>Have I missed something since it has been committed? >> >> > >Yes, Tom has removed this option in favorite of just setting >archive_command to a value which then enables the PITR code also. > >But as I've seen this isn't discussed to the very end currently. > >My 2ct: I'd prefer to have archive_mode in the config as it really makes >clear that this database is archiving. I fear users will not understand >that giving a program for archival will also enable the PITR function. > >Greetings, Klaus > > > >