On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:30 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I prefer archive_cleanup_command. We should name things after their
> principal function, not an implementation detail, IMNSHO.
>
> More importantly, we should include an example in the docs. I created
> one the other day when this was actually bothering me a bit (see
> <http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/85-Keeping-a-hot-standby-log-archive-clean.html>).
> That seemed to work ok, but maybe it's too long, and maybe people would
> prefer a shell script to perl.
I submitted a patch to make the command "pg_standby -a %r"
That's a more portable solution, ISTM.
I'll commit that and fix the docs.
-- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
