Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> writes:
> You also don't want to be the guy who has to explain why the database is
> taking hours to come back up again after it crashed and has 4000 WAL
> segments to replay, because archiving failed for a long time and prevented
> proper checkpoints (ask Robert Treat if you don't believe me, he also once
> was that guy).
Say what? Archiver failure can't/shouldn't prevent checkpointing.
regards, tom lane