Re: WAL archiving idle database

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
Cc: Brian Wipf <brian(at)clickspace(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WAL archiving idle database
Date: 2007-10-26 21:46:59
Message-ID: 1193435219.7624.104.camel@dogma.ljc.laika.com
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On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 16:31 -0500, Erik Jones wrote:
> In the absence of activity, WAL are archived every checkpoint_timeout
> seconds. archive_timeout is how long postgres will wait for the
> archive_command to return before declaring it failed.
>

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-wal.html

"When this parameter is greater than zero, the server will switch to a
new segment file whenever this many seconds have elapsed since the last
segment file switch."

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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