Josh Berkus wrote: > Greg, > > > The way things stand you *always* need archived logs. Even if you have > > streaming set up it might try to use archived logs if it falls too far > > behind. > > Actually, you don't. If you're willing to accept possible > desynchronization and recloning of the standbys, then you can skip the > archive logs.
Agreed, but as a reality check: when I proposed that wal_keep_segments = -1 would keep all WAL segments (for use while the file system was being backed up), I was told administrators shoud compute how much free disk space they had. Obviously easy of use is not our #1 priority. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
