Re: suppress empty archive_command warning message

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Pavel Tide <paveltide(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: suppress empty archive_command warning message
Date: 2021-04-23 19:38:09
Message-ID: 20210423193809.GL20766@tamriel.snowman.net
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Greetings,

* Bruce Momjian (bruce(at)momjian(dot)us) wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 08:48:39PM +0200, Pavel Tide wrote:
> > Is there a way to suppress the WARNING that is thrown in PG logs if
> > archive_mode is enabled but the archive command is empty? Maybe some
> > configuration key which I have overlooked?
>
> Have you tried putting "/bin/true" in there, for non-Windows?

Erm, that would cause all WAL to just be silently thrown away.. To have
the same behavior as having it be unset, you'd set it to '/bin/false'.

Of course, which you want depends, but generally you should be using a
real archive command to archive your WAL, not throwing it away.

Thanks,

Stephen

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