Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Allow time delayed standbys and recovery

On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 3:36 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 8:15 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 8:43 PM Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
> > > I share your discomfort with the wording. How about:
> > >
> > > WAL records must be kept on standby until they are ready to be applied.
> > > Therefore, longer delays will result in a greater accumulation of WAL
> files,
> > > increasing disk space requirements for the standby's
> <filename>pg_wal</>
> > > directory.
> >
> > Looks awesome.
>
> Here that is in patch form. I feel that the feature freeze should not
> preclude committing this documentation improvement, but if someone
> feels otherwise, then I will leave this until the tree reopens.
>

We normally allow documentation and bug fixes after the feature freeze.
(It's only in the "we're about to wrap the release right now"-freeze that
we have to avoid those)

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