Re: Automatic cleanup of oldest WAL segments with pg_receivexlog

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Automatic cleanup of oldest WAL segments with pg_receivexlog
Date: 2017-03-09 13:54:48
Message-ID: 2f00fa27-20d1-9c68-29f0-d27b612c9aee@2ndquadrant.com
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On 3/7/17 11:16, Robert Haas wrote:
> Well, if the problem you're trying to solve is "retain WAL for as long
> as possible without running out of disk space and having everything go
> kablooey", then it would solve that problem, and I think that's a very
> reasonable problem to want to solve.

Could be. I'm not sure what that means for the presented patch, though.
Or whether it addresses Michael's original use case at all.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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