| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, 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: | 2010-06-09 07:21:08 |
| Message-ID: | 1276068068.12489.6512.camel@ebony |
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On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:30 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I prefer archive_cleanup_command. We should name things after their
> principal function, not an implementation detail, IMNSHO.
>
> More importantly, we should include an example in the docs. I created
> one the other day when this was actually bothering me a bit (see
> <http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/85-Keeping-a-hot-standby-log-archive-clean.html>).
> That seemed to work ok, but maybe it's too long, and maybe people would
> prefer a shell script to perl.
I submitted a patch to make the command "pg_standby -a %r"
That's a more portable solution, ISTM.
I'll commit that and fix the docs.
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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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