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Improve recovery.conf.sample comments.

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Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais, with some additional wordsmithing by me.
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Robert Haas 2011-01-07 10:49:29 -05:00
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src/backend/access/transam/recovery.conf.sample
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# -------------------------------
#
# Edit this file to provide the parameters that PostgreSQL needs to
# perform an archive recovery of a database, or to act as a log-streaming
# replication standby.
# perform an archive recovery of a database, or to act as a replication
# standby.
#
# If "recovery.conf" is present in the PostgreSQL data directory, it is
# read on postmaster startup. After successful recovery, it is renamed
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# STANDBY SERVER PARAMETERS
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# When standby_mode is enabled, the PostgreSQL server will work as
# a standby. It tries to connect to the primary according to the
# connection settings primary_conninfo, and receives XLOG records
# continuously.
# standby_mode
#
# When standby_mode is enabled, the PostgreSQL server will work as a
# standby. It will continuously wait for the additional XLOG records, using
# restore_command and/or primary_conninfo.
#
#standby_mode = off
#
# primary_conninfo
#
# If set, the PostgreSQL server will try to connect to the primary using this
# connection string and receive XLOG records continuously.
#
#primary_conninfo = '' # e.g. 'host=localhost port=5432'
#
#
# By default, a standby server keeps streaming XLOG records from the
# primary indefinitely. If you want to stop streaming and finish recovery,
# opening up the system in read/write mode, specify path to a trigger file.
# Server will poll the trigger file path periodically and stop streaming
# when it's found.
# By default, a standby server keeps restoring XLOG records from the
# primary indefinitely. If you want to stop the standby mode, finish recovery
# and open the system in read/write mode, specify path to a trigger file.
# The server will poll the trigger file path periodically and start as a
# primary server when it's found.
#
#trigger_file = ''
#