Re: pgbackrest periodic WAL backups? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Ron
Subject Re: pgbackrest periodic WAL backups?
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Msg-id 1faf5f2b-b023-091c-c1a5-8646cbbc8999@gmail.com
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In response to Re: pgbackrest periodic WAL backups?  (David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>)
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On 12/10/2018 07:37 AM, David Steele wrote:
> On 12/9/18 5:24 PM, Ron wrote:
>> On 12/09/2018 01:10 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>> You can address that risk by enabling archive_timeout, which will make
>>> PostgreSQL archive the WAL file even if it isn't full after a certain
>>> amount of time, reducing the potential data loss window.
>> I thought checkpoint_timeout forced a WAL switch.
> Checkpoints do not automatically switch WAL.  archive_timeout is the way
> to go.

Thanks for the clarification.

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