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PostgreSQL 11 and below used a configuration file named
<code class="filename">recovery.conf</code>
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to manage replicas and standbys. Support for this file was removed in PostgreSQL 12. See
<a class="link" href="release-prior.html" title="E.5. Prior Releases">the release notes for PostgreSQL 12</a> for details
on this change.
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On PostgreSQL 12 and above,
<a class="link" href="continuous-archiving.html" title="26.3. Continuous Archiving and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)">archive recovery, streaming replication, and PITR</a>
are configured using
<a class="link" href="runtime-config-replication.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-REPLICATION-STANDBY" title="20.6.3. Standby Servers">normal server configuration parameters</a>.
These are set in <code class="filename">postgresql.conf</code> or via
<a class="link" href="sql-altersystem.html" title="ALTER SYSTEM">ALTER SYSTEM</a>
like any other parameter.
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The server will not start if a <code class="filename">recovery.conf</code> exists.
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PostgreSQL 15 and below had a setting
<code class="literal">promote_trigger_file</code>, or
<code class="literal">trigger_file</code> before 12.
Use <code class="command">pg_ctl promote</code> or call
<code class="function">pg_promote()</code> to promote a standby instead.
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The
<code class="literal">standby_mode</code>
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setting has been removed. A <code class="filename">standby.signal</code> file in the data directory
is used instead. See <a class="xref" href="warm-standby.html#STANDBY-SERVER-OPERATION" title="27.2.2. Standby Server Operation">Standby Server Operation</a> for details.
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