Re: Dividing progress/debug information in pg_standby, and stat before copy

Josh Berkus wrote:
>> *That* makes pg_standby obsolete, not streaming replication per se.
>> Setting standby_mode=on, with a valid restore_command using e.g 'cp' and
>> no connection info for walreceiver is more or less the same as using
>> pg_standby.
> 
> What about deletion of no-longer-needed WALfile copies?

Yeah, good point. You can still use a shell script as restore_command,
pass the %r option to it, and do the deletion there.

I didn't intend to replace pg_standby when I started this, it just kind
of happened. Maybe we should provide a sample script similar to
pg_standby, to be used instead of plain 'cp', that does the cleanup too.

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