A J <s5...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Also couple of additional related question: > 2. Am I correct in my assumption that if for some reason archive > is not cleaned up and runs out of space, the WALs will accumulate > in pg_xlog directory on the primary. If pg_xlog was to then run > out of space, Primary server will stop accepting new writes and > fail ? That sounds correct to me. I've never seen it in practice, though; we would need to ignore alerts from our monitoring for quite some time before it got to that point. > 3. If my standbys are in different datacenter, what is the > suggested location of the archive directory ? Is it recommended to > have it local in the data center of the primary server or somehow > have it over in the remote data center. In our shop we have found it advantageous to immediately write it locally, and then use rsync (through ssh and a daemon) to bring the remote site(s) into sync. -Kevin
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