| From: | Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Streaming Replication and archiving |
| Date: | 2010-01-20 21:33:25 |
| Message-ID: | 4B5776A5.4030909@catalyst.net.nz |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Thanks Dimitri, I'd missed that thread. Ok, slave will need a suitable
>> restore_comand in addition to primary_conninfo in recovery.conf, and
>> then extended communication failures (or shutting down the slave for a
>> while!) will not break the streaming setup (FWIW I tried this just now).
>>
>
> Sure, but if the archived WAL segments are NOT needed, how are they
> supposed to get deleted? It doesn't take long to run out of disk space
> if they're not being rotated.
>
>
+1
From what I am seeing at the moment (8.5 devel from 2 days ago), the
archived segments are not deleted at all (I have several hundred now
after a number of pgbench runs over the last day or so).
regards
Mark
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