On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Greg,
>>
>> > The way things stand you *always* need archived logs. Even if you have
>> > streaming set up it might try to use archived logs if it falls too far
>> > behind.
>>
>> Actually, you don't. If you're willing to accept possible
>> desynchronization and recloning of the standbys, then you can skip the
>> archive logs.
>
> Agreed, but as a reality check: when I proposed that wal_keep_segments
> = -1 would keep all WAL segments (for use while the file system was
> being backed up), I was told administrators shoud compute how much free
> disk space they had. Obviously easy of use is not our #1 priority.
Amen.
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