Re: archive modules

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 06:37:38AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I noticed that this patch has gone around and mostly purged mentions of
> archive_command from the documentation and replaced them with
> archive_library. I don't think this is helpful, since people still use
> archive_command and will want to see what the documentation has to say
> about it. I suggest we rewind that a bit and for example replace things
> like
>
> removed or recycled until they are archived. If WAL archiving cannot keep up
> - with the pace that WAL is generated, or if <varname>archive_command</varname>
> + with the pace that WAL is generated, or if <varname>archive_library</varname>
> fails repeatedly, old WAL files will accumulate in <filename>pg_wal</filename>
>
> with
>
> removed or recycled until they are archived. If WAL archiving cannot keep up
> with the pace that WAL is generated, or if <varname>archive_command</varname>
> with the pace that WAL is generated, or if <varname>archive_command</varname>
> or <varname>archive_library</varname>
> fail repeatedly, old WAL files will accumulate in <filename>pg_wal</filename>

Yep. Some references to archive_library have been changed by 31e121
to do exactly that. There seem to be more spots in need of an
update.
--
Michael