Re: psql 8 warm standby strong start, weak finish

>>> archiving run. Postgres will recycle WALs on its own when they are no
>>> longer needed. Or is there is some compelling reason you want to get rid
>of WALs?
>>
>> Ah. I didn't know that. I thought the cleanup was on me. Bonus!
>
>For more info take a look here:
>
>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/wal-configuration.html

Things are running smoothly so far. The proof will be in the pudding after 48h or so. But I have changed my rsync from its original pull approach to push. I do need to clean up the WAL's on master once they've made it to the warm_standby, so in this new push approach, I only round up WAL's that are, say 10m old, and then rsync those to warm_standby, deleting them on master when they've been xferred. warm_standby continues to do a good job of cleaning up the archive dir w/o any fuss from me.