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* disable archiving
@ 2007-07-23 17:24  Paul van den Bogaard <Paul.Vandenbogaard@Sun.COM>
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 6+ messages in thread

From: Paul van den Bogaard @ 2007-07-23 17:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-performance

the manual somewhere states "... if archiving is enabled..." To me  
this implies that archiving can be disabled. However I cannot find  
the parameter to use to get this result. Or should I enable archiving  
and use a backup script like

#!/usr/bin/bash
exit 0



Would appreciate a hint. And yes I know I put my database in danger  
etc. This is for some benchmarks where I do not want the overhead of  
archiving. Jus a file system that will not fill with zillions of  
these 16MB WAL files ;^)

Thanks
Paul.





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* Re: disable archiving
@ 2007-07-23 17:34  Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
  parent: Paul van den Bogaard <Paul.Vandenbogaard@Sun.COM>
  3 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread

From: Alvaro Herrera @ 2007-07-23 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paul van den Bogaard <Paul.Vandenbogaard@Sun.COM>; +Cc: pgsql-performance

Paul van den Bogaard wrote:
> the manual somewhere states "... if archiving is enabled..." To me this 
> implies that archiving can be disabled. However I cannot find the parameter 
> to use to get this result.

Archiving is disabled by not setting archive_command.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.



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* Re: disable archiving
@ 2007-07-23 17:37  A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
  parent: Paul van den Bogaard <Paul.Vandenbogaard@Sun.COM>
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread

From: A. Kretschmer @ 2007-07-23 17:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-performance

am  Mon, dem 23.07.2007, um 19:24:48 +0200 mailte Paul van den Bogaard folgendes:
> the manual somewhere states "... if archiving is enabled..." To me  

Please don't hijack other threads...

(don't edit a mail-subject to create a new thread. Create a NEW mail!)


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* Re: disable archiving
@ 2007-07-23 17:39  Arjen van der Meijden <acmmailing@tweakers.net>
  parent: Paul van den Bogaard <Paul.Vandenbogaard@Sun.COM>
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread

From: Arjen van der Meijden @ 2007-07-23 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paul van den Bogaard <Paul.Vandenbogaard@Sun.COM>; +Cc: pgsql-performance

Perhaps you should've read the configuration-manual-page more carefully. ;)
Besides, WAL-archiving is turned off by default, so if you see them 
being archived you actually enabled it earlier

The "archive_command" is empty by default: "If this is an empty string 
(the default), WAL archiving is disabled."

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/runtime-config-wal.html

Best regards,

Arjen

On 23-7-2007 19:24 Paul van den Bogaard wrote:
> the manual somewhere states "... if archiving is enabled..." To me this 
> implies that archiving can be disabled. However I cannot find the 
> parameter to use to get this result. Or should I enable archiving and 
> use a backup script like
> 
> #!/usr/bin/bash
> exit 0
> 
> 
> 
> Would appreciate a hint. And yes I know I put my database in danger etc. 
> This is for some benchmarks where I do not want the overhead of 
> archiving. Jus a file system that will not fill with zillions of these 
> 16MB WAL files ;^)
> 
> Thanks
> Paul.
> 
> 
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* Re: disable archiving
@ 2007-07-23 17:42  Paul van den Bogaard <Paul.Vandenbogaard@Sun.COM>
  parent: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread

From: Paul van den Bogaard @ 2007-07-23 17:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>; +Cc: pgsql-performance

Alvaro,

thanks for the quick reply. Just to make sure: I do not set this  
command. This results in the database cycling through a finite set  
(hopefully small) set of WAL files. So old WAL files are reused once  
the engine thinks this can be done.

Thanks
Paul


On 23-jul-2007, at 19:34, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Paul van den Bogaard wrote:
>> the manual somewhere states "... if archiving is enabled..." To me  
>> this
>> implies that archiving can be disabled. However I cannot find the  
>> parameter
>> to use to get this result.
>
> Archiving is disabled by not setting archive_command.
>
> -- 
> Alvaro Herrera                                http:// 
> www.CommandPrompt.com/
> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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* Re: disable archiving
@ 2007-07-24 07:33  valgog <valgog@gmail.com>
  parent: Paul van den Bogaard <Paul.Vandenbogaard@Sun.COM>
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread

From: valgog @ 2007-07-24 07:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-performance

On Jul 23, 7:24 pm, Paul.Vandenboga...@Sun.COM (Paul van den Bogaard)
wrote:
> the manual somewhere states "... if archiving is enabled..." To me
> this implies that archiving can be disabled. However I cannot find
> the parameter to use to get this result. Or should I enable archiving
> and use a backup script like
>
> #!/usr/bin/bash
> exit 0
>
> Would appreciate a hint. And yes I know I put my database in danger
> etc. This is for some benchmarks where I do not want the overhead of
> archiving. Jus a file system that will not fill with zillions of
> these 16MB WAL files ;^)
>
> Thanks
> Paul.
>
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> TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate
>        subscribe-nomail command to majord...@postgresql.org so that your
>        message can get through to the mailing list cleanly

Is it normal to spoil other threads? or is it a bug?

If it is not a bug, please change the subject of the topic back to
what it was!

With best regards,

Valentine Gogichashvili




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