Re: Command to prune archive at restartpoints

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Command to prune archive at restartpoints
Date: 2010-03-22 15:58:17
Message-ID: 407d949e1003220858j4196c5beifa7645974dd34a9b@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 11:37 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
>> One awkward omission in the new built-in standby mode, mainly used for
>> streaming replication, is that there is no easy way to delete old
>> archived files like you do with the %r parameter to restore_command.
>
> Would it be better to call this "archive_cleanup_command"? That might
> help people understand the need for and the use of this parameter.

This is bikeshedding but fwiw I like Simon's suggestion.

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greg

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