Re: WAL archive (archive_mode = always) ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: WAL archive (archive_mode = always) ?
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Msg-id 20181019140731.GI2099@paquier.xyz
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In response to WAL archive (archive_mode = always) ?  (Adelino Silva <adelino.j.silva@googlemail.com>)
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 03:00:15PM +0100, Adelino Silva wrote:
> What is the advantage to use archive_mode = always in a slave server
> compared to archive_mode = on (shared WAL archive) ?
> I only see duplication of Wal files, what is the purpose of this
> feature?

Some users like having redundancy in their backups and archives, so as
all things are on multiple location.  archive_mode = always helps in
leveraging these needs.
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Michael

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