On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 16:31 -0500, Erik Jones wrote:
> In the absence of activity, WAL are archived every checkpoint_timeout
> seconds. archive_timeout is how long postgres will wait for the
> archive_command to return before declaring it failed.
>
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-wal.html
"When this parameter is greater than zero, the server will switch to a
new segment file whenever this many seconds have elapsed since the last
segment file switch."
Regards,
Jeff Davis
