Retire pg_standby.
authorThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:21:53 +0000 (13:21 +1300)
committerThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 01:09:41 +0000 (14:09 +1300)
commit514b411a2b5226167add9ab139d3a96dbe98035d
tree13c8640e721634c7221f7d1377b5e1c3d2a8c853
parent1046dbedde2fc3fe55f007ff3255ab65ab98f858
Retire pg_standby.

pg_standby was useful more than a decade ago, but now it is obsolete.
It has been proposed that we retire it many times.  Now seems like a
good time to finally do it, because "waiting restore commands"
are incompatible with a proposed recovery prefetching feature.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201029024412.GP5380%40telsasoft.com
Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
contrib/Makefile
contrib/pg_standby/.gitignore [deleted file]
contrib/pg_standby/Makefile [deleted file]
contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c [deleted file]
doc/src/sgml/contrib.sgml
doc/src/sgml/filelist.sgml
doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml
doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml [deleted file]
doc/src/sgml/ref/pgarchivecleanup.sgml
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm