Hi,
I am currently setting up a warm standby configuration with Postgres 8.3.
Everything seems to be fine but the archive timeout doesnt seem to be
working as expected. The setup is currently in a test environment and I
have set the archive_timeout to be 60sec. The WAL logs however only seem to
be written out when the checkpoint_timeout expires. There is currently very
small amount of database activity in the test environment. But I would have
expected a WAL log be written every 60sec with maybe 1MB of data.
This is what I have set up for testing purposes:
# - Checkpoints -
checkpoint_segments = 3 # in logfile segments, min 1, 16MB
each
checkpoint_timeout = 5min # range 30s-1h
#checkpoint_completion_target = 0.5 # checkpoint target duration, 0.0 -
1.0
#checkpoint_warning = 30s # 0 is off
# - Archiving -
archive_mode = on
archive_command = 'cp -i "%p" /pgbackup/"%f" </dev/null'
archive_timeout = 60s
Is there something I am missing here?
Thanks!
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Steve K