On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I know this is a question for postgresql forum, but I think is convenient to > know it in this forum as well. Does the ‘archive_command’ run if and only if > the postgresql stored procedure named ‘pg_start_backup’ is called? My > concern is that if archiving is enabled, the backup files would fill the > disk space. If instead, every time I’m going to recover a failed node, I > would just need to empty the archive directory before issuing > pg_start_backup. Does this make sense?
You only need to set archive_command just before starting the online recovery process. You do not need to have PostgreSQL archiving binary logs all the time. -- Jaume Sabater http://linuxsilo.net/ "Ubi sapientas ibi libertas" _______________________________________________ Pgpool-general mailing list [email protected] http://pgfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/pgpool-general
