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Re: Allow pg_archivecleanup to remove backup history files

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-05-15T06:22:41Z
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On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 03:16:46PM +0900, torikoshia wrote:
> On 2023-05-15 09:18, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> How about plugging in some long options, and use something more
>> explicit like --clean-backup-history?
> 
> Agreed.

If you begin to implement that, it seems to me that this should be
shaped with a first separate patch that refactors the code to use
getopt_long(), and a second patch for the proposed feature that builds
on top of it.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. pg_archivecleanup: Add --clean-backup-history

  2. pg_archivecleanup: Refactor loop doing old segment removals

  3. Introduce long options in pg_archivecleanup