Re: archive_command / pg_stat_archiver & documentation

On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 05:17:06PM +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> Maybe this can be better addressed than with a link in the
> documentation.  The final outcome is that it can be difficult to
> monitor the archiver state in such case.  That's orthogonal to this
> patch but maybe we can add a new "archiver_start" timestamptz column
> in pg_stat_archiver, so monitoring tools can detect a problem if it's
> too far away from pg_postmaster_start_time() for instance?

There may be other solutions as well.  I have applied the doc patch
for now.
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Michael