Add value 'current' for recovery_target_timeline
authorPeter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:25:06 +0000 (10:25 +0100)
committerPeter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:02:03 +0000 (11:02 +0100)
commitff85306055ede1fbca86ca4dfc4d48172342462b
treea92ffefd5aab8c6fccb1d15f666490851b11b172
parent43cbedab8ff1eef4088807ffc1a64a107de67af6
Add value 'current' for recovery_target_timeline

This value represents the default behavior of using the current
timeline.  Previously, this was represented by an empty string.

(Before the removal of recovery.conf, this setting could not be chosen
explicitly but was used when recovery_target_timeline was not
mentioned at all.)

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6dd2c23a-4162-8469-410f-bfe146e28c0c@2ndquadrant.com/
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample