On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 22:49 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 10/06/10 22:24, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > > Heikki Linnakangas<heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > >> Maybe we could add a new pg_cleanuparchive binary, but we'll need some > >> discussion... > > > > Would this binary ever be used manually, not invoked by PostgreSQL? As > > it depends on the %r option to be given and to be right, I don't think > > so. > > Hmm, actually it would be pretty handy. To make use of a base backup, > you need all the WAL files following the one where pg_start_backup() was > called. We create a .backup file in the archive to indicate that > location, like: > > 00000001000000000000002F.00000020.backup > > So to clean up all WAL files older than those needed by that base > backup, you would simply copy-paste that location and call > pg_cleanuparchive: > > pg_cleanuparchive /walarchive/ 00000001000000000000002F
OK, sounds like we're on the same thought train. Here's the code. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services
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