Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Bruce Momjian escribió:
>> Which is where my 'wal_keep_segments = -1' idea came from.

> Are you suggesting that -1 should mean "keep all segments that fit on
> disk, but if creating a new segment fails with ENOSPC, recycle the
> oldest one"?

No, keep means keep.  Even if there were some arguable use for "keep if
you can", a scheme like that would render the machine unusable ---
everything else on the same filesystem would be falling over.

                        regards, tom lane

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