On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:40 PM Michael Banck <michael.ba...@credativ.de> wrote: > I guess not many will complain about pg_standby going away, but I am > under the impression that pg_archivecleanup is still used a lot in PITR > backup environments as a handy tool to expire WAL related to expired > base backups. I certainly saw hand-assembled shell code fail with "too > many files" and things when it tried to act on large amount of WAL.
Yeah, I see pg_archivecleanup used in customer environments all the time. Like just this morning, for example. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
