Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL
Date: 2010-02-11 13:55:56
Message-ID: 4B740C6C.3010607@enterprisedb.com
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> One question then: how do we ensure that the archive does not grow too
> big? pg_standby cleans down the archive using %R. That function appears
> to not exist anymore.

You can still use %R. Of course, plain 'cp' won't know what to do with
it, so a script will then be required. We should probably provide a
sample of that in the docs, or even a ready-made tool similar to
pg_standby but without the waiting.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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