| From: | Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> |
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| To: | Brian Wipf <brian(at)clickspace(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: WAL archiving idle database |
| Date: | 2007-10-26 21:31:51 |
| Message-ID: | 1806C4CE-FB5A-4FCE-A21D-80F8E9124C7F@myemma.com |
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On Oct 26, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Brian Wipf wrote:
> I have a test PG 8.2.5 installation that has been left idle with no
> connections to it whatsoever for the last 24 hours plus. WALs are
> being archived exactly 5 minutes apart, even though archive_timeout
> is set to 60. Is this the expected behavior for a database with no
> changes?
>
> Brian
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.
Erik Jones
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