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Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 22:33:25 +0300
From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
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Subject: Re: New trigger option of pg_standby
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 14:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Does this conclusion mean that changing pg_standby is no longer
>>>> on the table for 8.4?  It certainly smells more like a new feature
>>>> than a bug fix.
>>> This whole thing can be considered to be a new feature. It's working as 
>>> designed. But people seem to be surprised about the current behavior (me 
>>> included), and we don't currently provide the behavior that most people 
>>> actually want. I think we should fix it for 8.4.
>> Well, that's okay by me if it can be done in a timely fashion.  Bear in
>> mind that we are planning to wrap beta2 not much more than 24 hours from
>> now.
> 
> I'll write it now then, so it can be reviewed tomorrow.

Thanks, Simon!

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   Heikki Linnakangas
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