On 4/10/24 01:59, Andrey M. Borodin wrote:
>
>> On 9 Apr 2024, at 18:45, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe we should explicitly advise users to not delete that WAL from
>> their archives, until pg_combinebackup is hammered a bit more.
>
> As a backup tool maintainer, I always reference to out-of-the box Postgres tools as some bulletproof alternative.
> I really would like to stick to this reputation and not discredit these tools.
+1.
Even so, only keeping WAL for the last backup is a dangerous move in any
case. Lots of things can happen to a backup (other than bugs in the
software) so keeping WAL back to the last full (or for all backups) is
always an excellent idea.
Regards,
-David