Re: Need Force flag for pg_drop_replication_slot()

On 05/29/2015 11:01 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Josh Berkus (josh@agliodbs.com) wrote:
>> > 1. you're almost out of disk space due to a replica falling behind, like
>> > down to 16mb left.  Or maybe you are out of disk space.
> This right here is a real issue.  What I'd personally like to see is an
> option which says "you have X GB of disk space.  Once it's gone, forget
> about all replicas or failing archive commands or whatever, and just
> stop holding on to ancient WAL that you no longer need to operate."

The substantial challenge here is how do we determine that you're
"almost out of disk space"?

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