Re: Postgres 8.3 archive_command

On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 10:34 +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote:
> > I don't think that should even be a TODO item --- it seems far more
> > likely to provide a foot-gun than useful capability.
> 
> On further reflection I think that initdb time is probably sufficient.
> Do you think that would be a reasonable TODO ?

I think you'd have to explain why this was needed. It was useful for
performance once, but not anymore.

There are many possible errors there, so not a road I would go down
without good reason. Extra configuration is just one more thing to go
wrong and one more thing for people to misconfigure.

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