Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Surely we don't expect DBAs to delete old files in pg_xlog? I agree with
>> Simon here, I think it would be better to not provide -1 as an option
>> here. At least you better document well that you should only do that
>> temporarily or you will eventually run out of disk space.
> I have updated the doc text to mention "temporarily" everywhere '-1' is
> mentioned.
FWIW, I've come to agree with Simon. Allowing -1 doesn't do anything
that you can't do with a large positive setting, and what it does do
is to encourage people to set the variable to an unsafe value as a
substitute for thinking.
regards, tom lane
