Re: Allow pg_archivecleanup to remove backup history files

Horiguchi-san, Michael-san

Thanks for your comments and information!

Attached a patch with documentation and regression tests.

On 2023-04-26 06:39, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 05:29:48PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
>> I thought that we have decided not to do that, but I coundn't find any
>> discussion about it in the ML archive. Anyway, I think it is great
>> that we have that option.
>
> No objections from here to make that optional. It's been argued for a
> couple of times that leaving the archive history files is good for
> debugging, but I can also get why one would one to clean up all the
> files older than a WAL retention policy. Even if these are just few
> bytes, it can be noisy for the eye to see a large accumulation of
> history files mixed with the WAL segments.
> --
> Michael

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