On 7/16/2013 6:21 PM, David B Harris wrote:
> Actually though (if any PostgreSQL developers are paying attention), it
> might be useful to have a new WAL segment-managing behaviour. With the
> advent of the replication functionality (which is amazing stuff, thanks
> so much), I'd expect fewer and fewer installations to use WAL archiving.
> If WAL archiving is disabled, it might make sense for pg_start_backup()
> to postpone the deletion of WAL segments until pg_stop_backup().
WAL archiving has another completely different use case, which is PITR,
Point In Time Recovery.
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