On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Magnus, Kevin:
>
> Two things:
>
> 1) pg_receivexlog doesn't help for users who need to archive from the
> master to cold storage (e.g. remote SAN, S3, whatever). So we're going
> to still need an archive_command.
It can, but it's definitely ugly :) As in you can run pg_receivexlog
locally... (No, I am not seriously suggesting you should)
> 2) One reason users are using the "test -f" version of the archive
> command is that we put it in the same postgresql.conf. I would suggest
> that we don't put *any* archive command in the sample postgresql.conf,
> since there is no command we can supply which isn't a potential foot-gun.
+1.
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