Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > I was planning to add a new GUC
> > archive_timeout (integer) = max # secs between log file switches
>
> That's fine, but feature freeze is in a week and we don't even have the
> basic function for manually doing a log file switch. Let's get that
> done first and then think about automatic switches.
>
> Also, forcing another 16M of WAL out every few seconds is a pretty crude
> and inefficient way of making sure your hot standby server is up to
> date. As Hannu noted, an archiving script can do better than that if it
> can access the current WAL file name and offset. So we really want to
> get the function to return that info done as well.
Agreed. One concern I have is that we have waited for Simon to complete
this for 1.5 years, and now with a week left he is still working on it
(or starting on it). I am wondering if someone else needs to take this
on, because if Simon doesn't complete it in a week, we don't have it for
8.2, and we would then have to sit through another year of PITR
complaints. :-(
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