Re: WAL archiving to network drive - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: WAL archiving to network drive
Date
Msg-id 10700.1219282057@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: WAL archiving to network drive  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
Responses Re: WAL archiving to network drive
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Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> You also don't want to be the guy who has to explain why the database is
> taking hours to come back up again after it crashed and has 4000 WAL
> segments to replay, because archiving failed for a long time and prevented
> proper checkpoints (ask Robert Treat if you don't believe me, he also once
> was that guy).

Say what?  Archiver failure can't/shouldn't prevent checkpointing.

            regards, tom lane

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