On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 02:01:54PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:49:40PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:11:53PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> >
> > >> What do you think would be the right thing to do with it at this
> > >> point?
> > >
> > > Well, there should probably be a tar files with a README. What
> > > about adding this to /contrib?
> >
> > I would be happy to add it to contrib if people want it there.
> > There was some discussion of that when I wrote it, but then there
> > was a feeling that it would be uninteresting once people had
> > streaming replication. I'm skeptical that people will ever lose
> > interest in archiving WAL files, because of the not-uncommon need to
> > keep archival backups or restore to a "point in time" to recover
> > from a mangled table. As long as those needs are there, I suspect
> > that people will want to compress WAL files, including making
> > partially-filled files smaller.
>
> Agreed. Please move forward on the contrib idea.
Kevin, did this get accomplished?
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