Re: Cleanup of same archive used by multiple standbys - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: Cleanup of same archive used by multiple standbys
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Msg-id 4E427129020000250003FD43@gw.wicourts.gov
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In response to Cleanup of same archive used by multiple standbys  (A J <s5aly@yahoo.com>)
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A J <s5aly@yahoo.com> wrote:

> What is the suggested technique for cleaning up an archive
> location shared by multiple standbys. Looks like pg_archivecleanup
> cannot be used as %r refers to last restartpoint of only a single
> standby server.  Do I need to create a custom script that somehow
> determines the latest common restartpoint of ALL the standbys and
> then manually run pg_archivecleanup with that value ?

I seem to remember that in a previous discussion of this the best
idea seemed to be to create a hard link to the file for each
standby, such that when the last standby cleans up the file, it is
actually deleted.

-Kevin

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