On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Another thought I have here is to wonder whether we should change
>> something on the server side so that we don't NEED such a complicated
>> archive_command. I mean, copying a file to a directory somewhere is
>> not fundamentally a complex operation. Nor is using ssh to copy it to
>> another machine.
>
> It is once you consider error handling and catering to N combinations of
> user requirements.
>
> I think the notion that we should get rid of archive_command in favor of
> something more hard-wired is sheer lunacy. We have a nicely decoupled
> arrangement for dealing with these issues now; why would we want to pull
> them into the server?
I wasn't really proposing to get rid of it, but I do wonder if there
are some configuration parameters we could add somewhere that would
make common cases easier without making really complex things
impossible.
> Now, providing a more useful sample script is certainly reasonable.
Yep, so let's start with that.
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