Re: pg_archive_bypass

Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tend to consider it a bug that there's no known way under windows to
> use the same trick as under Unix by using '/usr/bin/true' as your
> archive command. And this Unix trick itself does feel like a hack.
> 
> Also I'd very much like to be able to recommend (even if not change the
> official defaults) to setup wal_level to archive, archive_mode=on and
> archive_command=pg_archive_bypass, so that the day you have a HA budget
> ain't the day you're going to restart the server to enable the fault
> tolerance settings?
> 
> So please find attached a very simple "let's see about it" patch to
> implement an internal archive_command that just returns true and is
> called pg_archive_bypass. It's missing documentation, which I'll provide
> if needed (meaning there's some will to consider applying such a patch).

Turn out 'REM' acts like /bin/true on Windows.  I have documented that
fact in the attached, applied patch.

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