Re: [PERFORM] disable archiving

2007-07-24 Thread valgog
On Jul 23, 7:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul van den Bogaard) wrote: the manual somewhere states ... if archiving is enabled... To me this implies that archiving can be disabled. However I cannot find the parameter to use to get this result. Or should I enable archiving and use a backup script

[PERFORM] disable archiving

2007-07-23 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
the manual somewhere states ... if archiving is enabled... To me this implies that archiving can be disabled. However I cannot find the parameter to use to get this result. Or should I enable archiving and use a backup script like #!/usr/bin/bash exit 0 Would appreciate a hint. And yes

Re: [PERFORM] disable archiving

2007-07-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Paul van den Bogaard wrote: the manual somewhere states ... if archiving is enabled... To me this implies that archiving can be disabled. However I cannot find the parameter to use to get this result. Archiving is disabled by not setting archive_command. -- Alvaro Herrera

Re: [PERFORM] disable archiving

2007-07-23 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 23.07.2007, um 19:24:48 +0200 mailte Paul van den Bogaard folgendes: the manual somewhere states ... if archiving is enabled... To me Please don't hijack other threads... (don't edit a mail-subject to create a new thread. Create a NEW mail!) Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer

Re: [PERFORM] disable archiving

2007-07-23 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
Perhaps you should've read the configuration-manual-page more carefully. ;) Besides, WAL-archiving is turned off by default, so if you see them being archived you actually enabled it earlier The archive_command is empty by default: If this is an empty string (the default), WAL archiving is

Re: [PERFORM] disable archiving

2007-07-23 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
Alvaro, thanks for the quick reply. Just to make sure: I do not set this command. This results in the database cycling through a finite set (hopefully small) set of WAL files. So old WAL files are reused once the engine thinks this can be done. Thanks Paul On 23-jul-2007, at 19:34,