Re: BUG #6528: pglesslog still referenced in docs, but no 9.1 support

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 06:45:02PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 08:43:37PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian escribió:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 02:01:54PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:49:40PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> > > > > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:11:53PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >> What do you think would be the right thing to do with it at this
> > > > > >> point?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Well, there should probably be a tar files with a README. What
> > > > > > about adding this to /contrib?
> > > > >
> > > > > I would be happy to add it to contrib if people want it there.
> > > > > There was some discussion of that when I wrote it, but then there
> > > > > was a feeling that it would be uninteresting once people had
> > > > > streaming replication. I'm skeptical that people will ever lose
> > > > > interest in archiving WAL files, because of the not-uncommon need to
> > > > > keep archival backups or restore to a "point in time" to recover
> > > > > from a mangled table. As long as those needs are there, I suspect
> > > > > that people will want to compress WAL files, including making
> > > > > partially-filled files smaller.
> > > >
> > > > Agreed. Please move forward on the contrib idea.
> > >
> > > Kevin, did this get accomplished?
> >
> > Just to be clear, what we're proposing adding to contrib is
> > clearxlogtail, not pglesslog, right?
>
> I was not clear on exactly what Kevin was going to add. Kevin?

Any news on this?

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