Re: Postgres 9.01 and WAL files issue

I thought that when I first read about WAL archiving but the documentation
explains quite well. Basically it is to stop a successful result being
returned in the event that the file already exists in the archive
destination (to cause an error in the event it tries to overwrite a file).

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Vick Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:52 PM, DM <dm(dot)aeqa(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Here is my Archive Command:
> > archive_command = 'cp -i %p /mnt/nfs/primary/%f < /dev/null'
> >
>
> Just curious... why would you turn on the interactive version of cp
> for an automated script? Is that why you feed it /dev/null as input?
>
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