Re: [RFC] What should we do for reliable WAL archiving? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 03/16/2014 03:23 PM, MauMau wrote:
> From: "Amit Kapila" <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
>> How about using pg_receivexlog for archiving purpose?
>
> pg_receivexlog is good in that it does fsync().  But it seems difficult
> to use correctly, and I'm not sure if I can catch all WAL segments
> without any loss.  pg_receivexlog must be started with postmaster and
> monitored with some measures.  This won't be very easy at least on Windows.

Replication slots should solve the issue of making sure to catch all of 
the WAL.

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Andreas Karlsson