From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Automatic cleanup of oldest WAL segments with pg_receivexlog |
Date: | 2017-02-27 14:50:51 |
Message-ID: | CABUevEy9f_Fx9ki_rfYNN-g4Qi85R9Hg0ZfQc-EUo4JiFkg5Cg@mail.gmail.com |
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Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:24 AM, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> wrote:
> > On Feb 25, 2017 15:00, "Michael Paquier" <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> > wrote:
> >> Oh, I definitely think such a command should be able to take a
> placeholder
> >> like %f telling which segment it has just processed. In fact, I'd
> consider
> >> it one of the most important features of it :)
> >
> > I cannot think about any other meaningful variables, do you?
> >
> >
> > Not offhand. But one thing that could go to the question of parameter
> name -
> > what if we finish something that's not a segment. During a time line
> switch
> > for example, we also get other files don't we? We probably want to
> trigger
> > at least some command in that case - either with an argument or by a
> > different parameter?
>
> To be consistent with archive_command and restore_command I'd rather
> not do that. The command called can decide by itself what to do by
> looking at the shape of the argument string.
>
Not do which one -- trigger the command at all? archive_command triggers on
non-segment files does it not?
If we want to trigger it with other files as well, then it shouldn't be
called --end-segment-command, should it?
--
Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
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