Re: Point in Time Recovery

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Point in Time Recovery
Date: 2004-07-20 02:22:50
Message-ID: 200407200222.i6K2MoS01269@candle.pha.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > If you keep falling further and further behind, eventually your pg_xlog
> > directory will fill the space available on its disk, and I think at that
> > point PG will panic and shut down because it can't create any more xlog
> > segments.
>
> Hang on, are you supposed to MOVE or COPY away WAL segments?

Copy. pg will delete them once they are archived.

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