restore_command
A configuration parameter defining the command to retrieve an archived WAL file
restore_command is a configuration parameter defining the command to retrieve an archived WAL file.
restore_command was added in PostgreSQL 8.0.
Before PostgreSQL 12 it was a replication configuration command which could only be set in recovery.conf.
Default value
The default value for restore_command is: '' (empty string).
Change history
- PostgreSQL 14
- can now be changed with a configuration reload (
SIGHUP) rather than a server restart (commit 942305a3)
- can now be changed with a configuration reload (
- PostgreSQL 12
- PostgreSQL 8.0
- added (commit 66ec2db7)
References
- PostgreSQL documentation: restore_command