On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:23 AM, AI Rumman <rumman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am going to sync slave with my master which is almost 500 G. I am not > using archive directory instead of I am using wal files for streaming. As > it may take almost 3 hours, I am thinking of setting up 400 for > wal_keep_segments where I have enough space available. > > Without the space issue, could there be any other problem in setting up > such high value for "wal_keep_segments"? As this is production, I need to > confirmed. > Another data point: I set up SR on two systems recently in production with the wal_keep_segments set to 10000 (lots of logs were being generated), and the slaves were about 1TB each. No problems were experienced.