On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> So I suggest that you have a new action that gets called after every
>> checkpoint to clear down the archive. It will remove all files from the
>> archive prior to %r. We can implement that as a sequence of unlink()s
>> from within the server, or we can just call a script to do it. I prefer
>> the latter approach. However we do it, we need something initiated by
>> the server to maintain the archive and stop it from overflowing.
>
> +1
If we leave executing the remove_command to the bgwriter, the restartpoint
might not happen unfortunately for a long time. To prevent that situation, the
archiver should execute the command, I think. Thought?
Regards,
--
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
