Simon Riggs wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 20:28 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Simon Riggs wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 15:20 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
The attached patch allows wal_keep_segments = -1 to keep all segements;
this is particularly useful for taking a base backup,
On 03/06/10 15:15, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Simon Riggs wrote:
I think its much easier to find out your free disk space than it is to
calculate how much WAL might be generated during backup. Disk space
doesn't vary significantly on a production database.
If we encourage that laziness then we will
Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
On 03/06/10 15:15, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Simon Riggs wrote:
I think its much easier to find out your free disk space than it is to
calculate how much WAL might be generated during backup. Disk space
doesn't vary significantly on a production database.
If we
Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
On 03/06/10 15:15, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Simon Riggs wrote:
I think its much easier to find out your free disk space than it is to
calculate how much WAL might be generated during backup. Disk space
doesn't vary significantly on a production database.
If we
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes:
Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
Surely we don't expect DBAs to delete old files in pg_xlog? I agree with
Simon here, I think it would be better to not provide -1 as an option
here. At least you better document well that you should only do that
temporarily
Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of jue jun 03 08:36:28 -0400 2010:
Using this only temporarily is mentioned in the doc patch. Do I need
more?
Yeah, it's far too easy to miss. Besides, I think the wording you used
is ambiguous -- it can be read as the server will temporarily keep all
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of jue jun 03 08:36:28 -0400 2010:
Using this only temporarily is mentioned in the doc patch. Do I need
more?
Yeah, it's far too easy to miss. Besides, I think the wording you used
is ambiguous -- it can be read as the server
Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
We leave that up to the DBA to clean out one way or another. We
provide restartpoint_command and the %r option in restore_command to
help with that.
I was in fact just looking into this, and I see that there is no example
restartpoint_comand script given in
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote:
Bruce Momjian wrote:
Robert Haas wrote:
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes:
Uh, did we decide that 'wal_keep_segments' was the best name for this
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 15:20 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
The attached patch allows wal_keep_segments = -1 to keep all segements;
this is particularly useful for taking a base backup, where you need all
the WAL files during startup of the standby. I have documented this
usage in the patch as
Simon Riggs wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 15:20 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
The attached patch allows wal_keep_segments = -1 to keep all segements;
this is particularly useful for taking a base backup, where you need all
the WAL files during startup of the standby. I have documented this
Robert Haas wrote:
The attached patch allows wal_keep_segments = -1 to keep all segements;
this is particularly useful for taking a base backup, where you need all
the WAL files during startup of the standby. ?I have documented this
usage in the patch as well.
I am thinking of applying
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 20:28 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Simon Riggs wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 15:20 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
The attached patch allows wal_keep_segments = -1 to keep all segements;
this is particularly useful for taking a base backup, where you need all
the
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