On 03/16/2014 03:23 PM, MauMau wrote:
> From: "Amit Kapila" <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
>> How about using pg_receivexlog for archiving purpose?
>
> pg_receivexlog is good in that it does fsync(). But it seems difficult
> to use correctly, and I'm not sure if I can catch all WAL segments
> without any loss. pg_receivexlog must be started with postmaster and
> monitored with some measures. This won't be very easy at least on Windows.
Replication slots should solve the issue of making sure to catch all of
the WAL.
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Andreas Karlsson