Re: WAL Archive Log

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:56 -0600, Sam Nelson wrote:

> Alright, well, we'll probably do something with the archive command,
> then, like either echoing %f to a log file or sending that to syslog
> (and then, after the echo, doing the actual cp or scp or rsync or
> whatever).  That way, we should be able to get some form of timestamp
> of when each WAL file is copied to the archive directory (using the
> archive_command), right?
>
>
> Is there any way we could somehow get postgres to log a line for us,
> so that we get that line in the postgres log file?  Or are we going to
> have to use a separate file?

Run this every N seconds to get the averaged write rate over the period

SELECT pg_xlogfile_name(pg_current_xlog_location());

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