Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Should we allow -1 to mean "keep all segments"?
> Umm, you can't keep all segments around forever, can you? Surely you
> have to recycle them sooner or later or you will run out of disk space.
You couldn't use that as a permanent setting, but it can make sense
as a transient setting, rather than having to guess how much WAL you'll
need to keep while setting up a new standby.
> In practice, you can just set wal_keep_segments to some ridiculously
> high value to achieve the same result.
True.
regards, tom lane
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