From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Simplifying replication
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:46:22 -0700
Message-ID: <4CC0DEDE.7060707@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010220022.o9M0M8Q29438@momjian.us>
References: <201010220022.o9M0M8Q29438@momjian.us>
> Agreed, but as a reality check: when I proposed that wal_keep_segments
> = -1 would keep all WAL segments (for use while the file system was
> being backed up), I was told administrators shoud compute how much free
> disk space they had. Obviously easy of use is not our #1 priority.
Depends. Running out of disk space isn't exactly user-friendly either.
And detecting how much free space is available would be a painful bit
of platform-dependant code ...
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-- Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
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