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Doc: Update or remove references to recovery.conf

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The recovery.conf file is not present anymore for Postgres >= 12.

PR 748.
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Felix Dreissig
2022-03-31 22:06:29 +02:00
committed by Ian Barwick
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@@ -249,16 +249,16 @@
For a standby which has been manually cloned or recovered from an external
backup manager such as Barman, the command
<command><link linkend="repmgr-standby-clone">repmgr standby clone --replication-conf-only</link></command>
can be used to create the correct <filename>recovery.conf</filename> file for
can be used to create the correct replication configuration file for
use with &repmgr; (and will create a replication slot if required). Once this has been done,
<link linkend="repmgr-standby-register">register the node</link> as usual.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="faq-repmgr-recovery-conf" >
<title>What does &repmgr; write in <filename>recovery.conf</filename>, and what options can be set there?</title>
<title>What does &repmgr; write in the replication configuration, and what options can be set there?</title>
<para>
See section <link linkend="repmgr-standby-clone-recovery-conf">Customising recovery.conf</link>.
See section <link linkend="repmgr-standby-clone-recovery-conf">Customising replication configuration</link>.
</para>
</sect2>
@@ -366,11 +366,11 @@
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="faq-repmgr-recovery-conf-quoted-values" xreflabel="Quoted values in recovery.conf">
<title>Why are some values in <filename>recovery.conf</filename> surrounded by pairs of single quotes?</title>
<sect2 id="faq-repmgr-recovery-conf-quoted-values" xreflabel="Quoted values in replication.conf">
<title>Why are some values in the filename>recovery.conf</filename> (PostgreSQL 11 and earlier) surrounded by pairs of single quotes?</title>
<para>
This is to ensure that user-supplied values which are written as parameter values in <filename>recovery.conf</filename>
are escaped correctly and do not cause errors when <filename>recovery.conf</filename> is parsed.
This is to ensure that user-supplied values which are written as parameter values in filename>recovery.conf</filename>
are escaped correctly and do not cause errors when the file is parsed.
</para>
<para>
The escaping is performed by an internal PostgreSQL routine, which leaves strings consisting
@@ -419,9 +419,9 @@
<para>
&repmgrd; can monitor delayed standbys - those set up with
<varname>recovery_min_apply_delay</varname> set to a non-zero value
in <filename>recovery.conf</filename> - but as it's not currently possible
to directly examine the value applied to the standby, &repmgrd;
may not be able to properly evaluate the node as a promotion candidate.
in the replication configuration. However &repmgrd; does not currently
consider this setting, and therefore may not be able to properly evaluate
the node as a promotion candidate.
</para>
<para>
We recommend that delayed standbys are explicitly excluded from promotion