Re: WAL archiving to network drive

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: Glen Parker <glenebob(at)nwlink(dot)com>, postgres general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WAL archiving to network drive
Date: 2008-08-21 01:27:37
Message-ID: 10700.1219282057@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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

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