On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd propose the attached WIP patch which allows us to enable WAL archiving > even in standby. The patch adds "always" as the valid value of archive_mode. > If it's set to "always", the archiver is started when the server is in standby > mode and all the WAL files that walreceiver wrote to the disk are archived by > using archive_command. Then, even after the server is promoted to master, > the archiver keeps archiving WAL files. The patch doesn't change the meanings > of the setting values "on" and "off" of archive_mode.
I like the feature, but I don't much like this as a control mechanism. Having archive_command and standby_archive_command, as you propose further down, seems saner. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
