Dimitri Fontaine <dfonta...@hi-media.com> writes: > Could we add yet another postmaster specialized child to handle the > archive, which would be like a default archive_command implemented in > core.
I think this fails the basic sanity check: do you need it to still work when the master is dead. It's reasonable to ask the master to supply a few gigs of very-recent WAL, but as soon as the word "archive" enters the conversation, you should be thinking in terms of a different machine. Or at least a design that easily scales to put the archive on a different machine. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers