On 3/22/17 14:09, Robert Haas wrote:
>> The opposite means primary. I can flip the GUC name to "is_primary", if
>> that's clearer.
> Hmm, I don't find that clearer. "hot standby" has a very specific
> meaning; "primary" isn't vague, but I would say it's less specific.
The problem I have is that there is already a GUC named "hot_standby",
which determines whether an instance is in hot (as opposed to warm?)
mode if it is a standby. This is proposing to add a setting named
"in_hot_standby" which says nothing about the hotness, but something
about the standbyness. Note that these are all in the same namespace.
I think we could use "in_recovery", which would be consistent with
existing naming.
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