Re: setting high value for wal_keep_segments

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:23 AM, AI Rumman <rummandba(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am going to sync slave with my master which is almost 500 G. I am not
> using archive directory instead of I am using wal files for streaming. As
> it may take almost 3 hours, I am thinking of setting up 400 for
> wal_keep_segments where I have enough space available.
>
> Without the space issue, could there be any other problem in setting up
> such high value for "wal_keep_segments"? As this is production, I need to
> confirmed.
>

Another data point: I set up SR on two systems recently in production with
the wal_keep_segments set to 10000 (lots of logs were being generated), and
the slaves were about 1TB each. No problems were experienced.