Re: Command to prune archive at restartpoints
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-03-22T15:58:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 11:37 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > >> One awkward omission in the new built-in standby mode, mainly used for >> streaming replication, is that there is no easy way to delete old >> archived files like you do with the %r parameter to restore_command. > > Would it be better to call this "archive_cleanup_command"? That might > help people understand the need for and the use of this parameter. This is bikeshedding but fwiw I like Simon's suggestion. -- greg