> Bruce Momjian... > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Anyway I think we are way past feature freeze, and XLog "compression" > > could made it into 8.1 without loss of functionality. At that point we > > will say "now PITR uses less space on the archiver" and that's it. > > > > (Maybe we could even think about LZ-compressing the remaining WAL > > entries on the archived logs?) > > Agreed. I added a mention of it in the TODO list: >
> Tom Lane... > I have zero interest in touching this problem for 8.0 ... OK, thats unanimously out for 8.0. Yes, you can compress stuff with a tool - though its even easier if the data isn't there in the first place. Thanks for the quick replies - saved me some time. Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])