Re: Maximum number of WAL files in the pg_xlog directory

On 10/15/2014 01:25 PM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> Monitoring is another matter, and I don't really think a monitoring
> solution should count the WAL files. What actually really matters is the
> database availability, and that is covered with having enough disk space in
> the WALs partition.

If we don't count the WAL files, though, that eliminates the best way to
detecting when archiving is failing.

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