Re: disable archiving

Alvaro,

thanks for the quick reply. Just to make sure: I do not set this
command. This results in the database cycling through a finite set
(hopefully small) set of WAL files. So old WAL files are reused once
the engine thinks this can be done.

Thanks
Paul

On 23-jul-2007, at 19:34, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Paul van den Bogaard wrote:
>> the manual somewhere states "... if archiving is enabled..." To me
>> this
>> implies that archiving can be disabled. However I cannot find the
>> parameter
>> to use to get this result.
>
> Archiving is disabled by not setting archive_command.
>
> --
> Alvaro Herrera http://
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