Re: pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make CheckRequiredParameterValues() depend upon correct - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 13:41 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>  
> > Yeah, min_wal_segments or something would make sense.
>  
> Surely it would confuse people to see they have fewer than
> min_wal_segments WAL segments.

That does sound like a reasonable argument, though it also applies to
wal_keep_segments, so isn't an argument either way. The user will be
equally confused to see fewer WAL files than they have asked to "keep".

min_wal_segments is much clearer, IMHO.

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