Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> writes:
>> that script to not delete.   Personally, I like to keep the last
>> two base backups and all the WAL files needed to restore from the
>> earlier of those forward.  We have  cleanup script that deletes
>> the oldest backup and WAL files only needed for recovery from it
>> when we receive a new one.
> 
> PostgreSQL 9.0 now ships with such a script per default:
> 
>  
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/pgarchivecleanup.html
 
Thanks for pointing that out.  Next time we touch the scripts, I'll
see about using this instead of the bash script we call to do the
equivalent.
 
I don't suppose there's something which looks *into* a backup file
and deletes all WAL files not needed to restore the related base
backup?  That would eliminate an even *uglier* bash script here.
 
-Kevin

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