Re: archive_keepalive_command

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> To provide some form of keepalive on quiet systems the
> archive_keepalive_command provides a generic hook to implement
> keepalives. This is implemented as a separate command to avoid storing
> keepalive messages in the archive, or at least allow overwrites using
> a single filename like "keepalive".

This may be stupid of me, but I don't see the point of this.  If you
want keepalives, why use log shipping rather than SR?  Implementing a
really-high-latency method of passing protocol messages through the
archive seems like a complex solution to a non-problem (but, like I
say, I may be missing something).

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