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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Sample archive_command is still problematic
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:13:34 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Josh Berkus <[email protected]> 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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