I was referring to the logs in the archive folder specified when WAL
archiving is turned on...not the pg_xlog folder.

I assume postgres will not use the logs in the archive folder

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:35 AM
To: Andy Shellam
Cc: Sriram Dandapani; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] WAL file naming convention

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:51:13PM -0000, Andy Shellam wrote:
> As PostgreSQL numbers WALs sequentially, as long as your ls command by
> default orders listings by filename, then Yes.  Or you could list by
the
> last modified date/time should give the same effect.

But note that the order it creates them in doesn't have much meaning,
because it can re-use them. So if you want to know anything about actual
current order of usage the filename is meaningless.

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> Sent: Saturday, 25 March, 2006 12:30 am
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> 
> 
> Hi
> 
>  
> 
> Is is safe to assume that the unix ls command will return WAL files in
the
> same sequence as postgres creates them.
> 
>  
> 
> e.g will ls <wal-file-folder> return files in the order that postgres
> created them
> 
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