Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32EBE64FEAF for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:44:03 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09514-04 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:43:59 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from livingmail01.inetu.net (unknown [209.235.247.80]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D41264FE33 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:43:58 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail 31094 invoked by uid 0); 17 Dec 2008 16:43:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.23?) (salmanb@quietcaresystems.com@127.0.0.1) by livingmail01.inetu.net with SMTP; 17 Dec 2008 16:43:56 -0000 Message-ID: <49492C4C.3080608@quietcaresystems.com> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:43:56 -0500 From: salman User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: PITR - archive_status/%p.done files Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=RDNS_NONE=0.1 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200812/132 X-Sequence-Number: 30965 A couple of questions about these files: 1) When are these generated? Is this once an archive is generated, or once the full archive_command has run? 2) Is there any harm in removing these files by appending an rm command at the end of archive_command? -salman