Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> ... I'm still unconvinced of our ability to come
> up with a solid design in the time we have, but I think it would make
> sense to listen to proposals people want to make. I poked some holes
> in Heikki's design from this morning (which was, more or less, my
> design from last week) but that doesn't mean they can't be plugged.
The only hole I saw poked was the one about how archive_mode is used to
decide whether to start the archiver process. I think we could
reasonably deal with that by starting the archiver iff wal_mode > 'crash'.
There's no point in archiving otherwise, and the overhead of an idle
archiver is small enough that we can live with the corner cases where
you're starting an archiver you don't really need.
regards, tom lane