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The previous recovery.conf regime accepted multiple recovery_target* settings and used the last one. This does not translate well to the general GUC system. Specifically, under EXEC_BACKEND, the settings are written out not in any particular order, so the order in which they were originally set is not available to new processes. Rather than redesign the GUC system, it was decided to abandon the old behavior and only allow one recovery target setting. A second setting will cause an error. However, it is allowed to set the same parameter multiple times or unset a parameter and set a different one. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/27802171543235530%40iva2-6ec8f0a6115e.qloud-c.yandex.net#701a59c837ad0bf8c244344aaf3ef5a4
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