Re: Hard limit on WAL space used (because PANIC sucks)

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I hope PostgreSQL will provide a reliable archiving facility that is ready
>> to use.
>
> +1. I think we should have a way to set an archive DIRECTORY, rather
> than an archive command. And if you set it, then PostgreSQL should
> just do all of that stuff correctly, without any help from the user.
> Of course, some users will want to archive to a remote machine via ssh
> or rsync or what-have-you, and those users will need to provide their
> own tools. But it's got to be pretty common to archive to a local
> path that happens to be a remote mount, or to a local directory whose
> contents are subsequently copied off by a batch job. Making that work
> nicely with near-zero configuration would be a significant advance.

That, or provide a standard archive command that takes the directory
as argument?

I bet we have tons of those available among us users...