A J <s5aly@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What is the suggested technique for cleaning up an archive
> location shared by multiple standbys. Looks like pg_archivecleanup
> cannot be used as %r refers to last restartpoint of only a single
> standby server. Do I need to create a custom script that somehow
> determines the latest common restartpoint of ALL the standbys and
> then manually run pg_archivecleanup with that value ?
I seem to remember that in a previous discussion of this the best
idea seemed to be to create a hard link to the file for each
standby, such that when the last standby cleans up the file, it is
actually deleted.
-Kevin