Tom Lane wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> If you aren't archiving then there's no guarantee that you'll still have > >> a continuous WAL series starting from the start of the backup. > > > I wasn't really thinking of this use case, but you could set > > wal_keep_segments "high enough". > > Ah. Okay, that seems like a workable approach, at least for people with > reasonably predictable WAL loads. We could certainly improve on it > later to make it more bulletproof, but it's usable now --- if we relax > the error checks. > > (wal_keep_segments can be changed without restarting, right?)
Should we allow -1 to mean "keep all segments"? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
