On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> Another thought I have here is to wonder whether we should change >> something on the server side so that we don't NEED such a complicated >> archive_command. I mean, copying a file to a directory somewhere is >> not fundamentally a complex operation. Nor is using ssh to copy it to >> another machine. > > It is once you consider error handling and catering to N combinations of > user requirements. > > I think the notion that we should get rid of archive_command in favor of > something more hard-wired is sheer lunacy. We have a nicely decoupled > arrangement for dealing with these issues now; why would we want to pull > them into the server?
I wasn't really proposing to get rid of it, but I do wonder if there are some configuration parameters we could add somewhere that would make common cases easier without making really complex things impossible. > Now, providing a more useful sample script is certainly reasonable. Yep, so let's start with that. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
