Add a note to release notes about the smart failover mode in pg_standby.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
index baaa61dca4bd2ca14948c62ee47f6c61c7d8abac..a82b3bcb700bb36fe57ff93350e96ce7bf781f4e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
@@ -3317,6 +3317,19 @@
       </para>
      </listitem>
 
+     <listitem>
+      <para>
+       Make <filename>contrib/pg_standby</> recover all available WAL before
+       failover (Fujii Masao, Simon, Heikki)
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+       To make this safe, you now need to set the new
+       <literal>recovery_end_command</> option in <filename>recovery.conf</> to
+       clean up the trigger fail after failover.
+      </para>
+     </listitem>
+
     </itemizedlist>
 
    </sect3>