Re: Logging the fact that a log was shipped

On 08/28/2017 06:06 AM, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> ## Ron Johnson (ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net):
>
>> How is this done in v8.4? (I tried adding "date; rsync ..." but pg
>> didn't like that *at all*.)
> There's a DEBUG1-level log message on successful archive_command
> completion - that would give you a lot of other low-prio log
> messages wich you probably don't care about.
> I'd put a wrapper around your rsync (a short shell script
> would be sufficient) in the lines of rsync ... && logger "done",
> that way you'd get the information via syslog.

And if logging to stderr?

> On the other hand, do you really need the details about each WAL
> segment? Since 9.4 there's pg_stat_wal_archiver... You're really
> making your job harder than it needs to be with that ancient
> PostgreSQL...

That's far beyond my control.

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