Re: [PATCH] remove pg_archivecleanup and pg_standby - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [PATCH] remove pg_archivecleanup and pg_standby
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Msg-id CA+TgmobYsmAG0Y503wKuoc9Kct3c9POCtYPDUxjjLHRchEefeQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] remove pg_archivecleanup and pg_standby  (Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>)
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:40 PM Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de> wrote:
> I guess not many will complain about pg_standby going away, but I am
> under the impression that pg_archivecleanup is still used a lot in PITR
> backup environments as a handy tool to expire WAL related to expired
> base backups. I certainly saw hand-assembled shell code fail with "too
> many files" and things when it tried to act on large amount of WAL.

Yeah, I see pg_archivecleanup used in customer environments all the
time. Like just this morning, for example.

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Robert Haas
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