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Re: Command to prune archive at restartpoints

Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-14T10:21:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
> In SR, WAL files in the pg_xlog directory on the standby are recycled
> by every restartpoints. So your proposed function seems not to be helpful
> even if hot_standby = on.

Then I guess I'm at a loss here: what is the pg_archivecleanup utility
good for in a standby?

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dim