Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC0C71337B47; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:06:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12121-03; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:05:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B6F1337BB0; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:05:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9EM5mqM005682; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:05:49 -0400 (EDT) To: Brendan Jurd cc: Simon Riggs , Fujii Masao , Robert Haas , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Docs for archive_cleanup_command are poor In-reply-to: References: <1287081204.1725.1094.camel@ebony> Comments: In-reply-to Brendan Jurd message dated "Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:51:28 +1100" Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:05:48 -0400 Message-ID: <5681.1287093948@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201010/32 X-Sequence-Number: 6173 Brendan Jurd writes: > Agreed that there are no doc bugs. The reason I suggested a backpatch > is that I'm concerned that a lot of people are going to be approaching > the whole Standby topic for the first time with 9.0, so it would be > nice to give those folks an accessible account of how > archive_cleanup_command is meant to be used. Yeah, if this is a material improvement in the usefulness of the HS docs, I think including it into 9.0.x isn't a bad idea. regards, tom lane