Re: Streaming replication, and walsender during recovery

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> writes:
> How about just making a restore_command copy the WAL files as the
> normal one (e.g., 0000...) instead of a pg_xlog/RECOVERYXLOG?
> Though we need to worry about deleting them, we can easily leave
> the task to the bgwriter.

The reason for doing it that way was to limit disk space usage during
a long restore.  I'm not convinced we can leave the task to the bgwriter
--- it shouldn't be deleting anything at that point.
        regards, tom lane