Re: [GENERAL] Using copy for WAL archiving on Windows

2011-01-22 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Christian, Should PostgreSQL maybe provide its own file-copy utility for Windows that meets the requirements for safe WAL archiving? Microsoft does provide an enterprise-ready webscale copy program ... it is called robocopy and part of the Windows Server Resource Kit Tools. Would you mind

Re: [GENERAL] Using copy for WAL archiving on Windows

2011-01-22 Thread Christian Ullrich
* Harald Armin Massa wrote: Should PostgreSQL maybe provide its own file-copy utility for Windows that meets the requirements for safe WAL archiving? Microsoft does provide an enterprise-ready webscale copy program ... it is called robocopy and part of the Windows Server Resource Kit

[GENERAL] Using copy for WAL archiving on Windows

2011-01-19 Thread Christian Ullrich
Hello all, the PostgreSQL manual, section 24.3.1, has an example archive_command for Windows. It is copy %p C:\\server\\archivedir\\%f . The next sentence disclaims this as an example, not a recommendation. I just had occasion to do some tests with that, and it appears to me that