On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> Mostly that it seems like a hack, and I suspect we may come up with a >> better way to do this in the future. > > Do you have the specs of such better way? Would it be a problem to have > both pg_retainxlog and the new way?
Well, I think in the long term we are likely to want the master to have some kind of ability to track the positions of its slaves, even when they are disconnected. And, optionally, to retain the WAL that they need, again even when they are disconnected. If such an ability materializes, this will be moot (even as I think that pg_standby is now largely moot, at least for new installations, now that we have standby_mode=on). -- 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
