Hi,
I tried to backport Simon Riggs patches for 7.4.x series to 7.3.x
with addition of python implementation of pg_arch.
It can be of interest if you consider to continue using 7.3 series of postgresql.
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c: calls to "ereport" was replaced with call to "elog".
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c : format of "wal_archive" was converted to 7.3 style
src/bin/Makefile: was removed
Attached patch can be applied to 7.3.4 and 7.3.5
During this week I'll test it in our development enviroment.
Best regards
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Igor Poteryaev