Re: Streaming Replication and archiving

> Thanks Dimitri, I'd missed that thread. Ok, slave will need a suitable
> restore_comand in addition to primary_conninfo in recovery.conf, and
> then extended communication failures (or shutting down the slave for a
> while!) will not break the streaming setup (FWIW I tried this just now).

Sure, but if the archived WAL segments are NOT needed, how are they
supposed to get deleted?  It doesn't take long to run out of disk space
if they're not being rotated.

Masao-san, can you comment on this?

--Josh