> - if you want to trigger a recovery at promotion or have the recovery
> parameters read on slave at startup, you need to create a file called
> recovery.trigger in PGDATA. (something like "touch recovery.conf" is
> enough). Once recovery is done, recovery.trigger is changed to
> recovery.done.
So, per our compromise, we'd want to change the name of that file back
to recovery.conf. There's no point in renaming the file if we're not
going to get rid of it.
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Josh Berkus
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