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Subject: When is it safe to remove recovery.done?
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After successfully testing a failover between my primary and a standby server, the old recovery.conf file is renamed recovery.done. As this system is now the master, I don't see a 
need to keep that file around, but is it safe to remove it now?
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Jay


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