On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> So I suggest that you have a new action that gets called after every >> checkpoint to clear down the archive. It will remove all files from the >> archive prior to %r. We can implement that as a sequence of unlink()s >> from within the server, or we can just call a script to do it. I prefer >> the latter approach. However we do it, we need something initiated by >> the server to maintain the archive and stop it from overflowing. > > +1
If we leave executing the remove_command to the bgwriter, the restartpoint might not happen unfortunately for a long time. To prevent that situation, the archiver should execute the command, I think. Thought? Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
