M.1. recovery.conf file merged into postgresql.conf
PostgreSQL 11 and below used a configuration file named
recovery.conf
to manage replicas and standbys. Support for this file was removed in PostgreSQL 12. See
the release notes for PostgreSQL 12
for details
on this change.
On PostgreSQL 12 and above,
archive recovery, streaming replication, and PITR
are configured using
normal server configuration parameters
.
These are set in
postgresql.conf
or via
ALTER SYSTEM
like any other parameter.
The server will not start if a
recovery.conf
exists.
The
trigger_file
setting has been renamed to
promote_trigger_file
.
The
standby_mode
setting has been removed. A
standby.signal
file in the data directory
is used instead. See
Standby Server Operation
for details.