> Agreed, but as a reality check: when I proposed that wal_keep_segments
> = -1 would keep all WAL segments (for use while the file system was
> being backed up), I was told administrators shoud compute how much free
> disk space they had. Obviously easy of use is not our #1 priority.
Depends. Running out of disk space isn't exactly user-friendly either.
And detecting how much free space is available would be a painful bit
of platform-dependant code ...
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