Simon Riggs wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 11:57 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I was planning to add a new GUC > > > > archive_timeout (integer) = max # secs between log file switches > > > > > > That's fine, but feature freeze is in a week and we don't even have the > > > basic function for manually doing a log file switch. Let's get that > > > done first and then think about automatic switches. > > > > > > Also, forcing another 16M of WAL out every few seconds is a pretty crude > > > and inefficient way of making sure your hot standby server is up to > > > date. As Hannu noted, an archiving script can do better than that if it > > > can access the current WAL file name and offset. So we really want to > > > get the function to return that info done as well. > > > > Agreed. One concern I have is that we have waited for Simon to complete > > this for 1.5 years, and now with a week left he is still working on it > > (or starting on it). > > Since we cannot agree even now on what should be done, you'll forgive me > for not having completed it sooner, especially since you know more about > my schedule now than others.
It is not a blame issue. The issue is I would like this completed for 8.2 and I want to minimize the possibility it will not be done. I think we do know what we want done. It is just that we are not certain of the user interface. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
