Re: pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make CheckRequiredParameterValues() depend upon correct - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> > Tom Lane wrote:
>> >> If you aren't archiving then there's no guarantee that you'll still have
>> >> a continuous WAL series starting from the start of the backup.
>>
>> > I wasn't really thinking of this use case, but you could set
>> > wal_keep_segments "high enough".
>>
>> Ah.  Okay, that seems like a workable approach, at least for people with
>> reasonably predictable WAL loads.  We could certainly improve on it
>> later to make it more bulletproof, but it's usable now --- if we relax
>> the error checks.
>>
>> (wal_keep_segments can be changed without restarting, right?)
>
> Should we allow -1 to mean "keep all segments"?

If that's what you want to do, use archive_mode.

...Robert