Re: allowing wal_level change at run time

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: allowing wal_level change at run time
Date: 2015-08-19 13:34:11
Message-ID: 20150819133411.GB5394@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-08-19 10:49:46 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> What happens "the first time"? Meaning I'm on wal_level=minimal and take a
> base backup. Then when the replica first connects 10 minutes later, it
> needs WAL back in time, which was logged at wal_level=minimal.

> So you'd need to bump it up whenever a base backup is done -- but then you
> can't drop it back down again or your base backup will be useless.

> Or am I missing something?

Nope. Requiring pg_basebackup to automatically create such a
'non-reserving' slot doesn't seem to be too bad to me.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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