On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: >> Greg, >> >> > The way things stand you *always* need archived logs. Even if you have >> > streaming set up it might try to use archived logs if it falls too far >> > behind. >> >> Actually, you don't. If you're willing to accept possible >> desynchronization and recloning of the standbys, then you can skip the >> archive logs. > > Agreed, but as a reality check: when I proposed that wal_keep_segments > = -1 would keep all WAL segments (for use while the file system was > being backed up), I was told administrators shoud compute how much free > disk space they had. Obviously easy of use is not our #1 priority.
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