On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> writes: >> > Tom Lane wrote: >> >> If you aren't archiving then there's no guarantee that you'll still have >> >> a continuous WAL series starting from the start of the backup. >> >> > I wasn't really thinking of this use case, but you could set >> > wal_keep_segments "high enough". >> >> Ah. Okay, that seems like a workable approach, at least for people with >> reasonably predictable WAL loads. We could certainly improve on it >> later to make it more bulletproof, but it's usable now --- if we relax >> the error checks. >> >> (wal_keep_segments can be changed without restarting, right?) > > Should we allow -1 to mean "keep all segments"?
If that's what you want to do, use archive_mode. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
