On 3/6/17 17:16, Robert Haas wrote: > What if we told pg_receivewal (or pg_receivexlog, whatever that is) a > maximum number of segments to retain before removing old ones? Like > pg_receivewal --limit-retained-segments=50GB, or something like that.
That would be doable, but would it solve anyone's problem? I think pg_receivewal retention would usually be governed either by the available base backups, or by some time-based business metric. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers