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From Laurence Rowe
Subject Avoid WAL archiving when idle?
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Msg-id CAOycyLTm6X3mVLz+sLCex+W==WSMgu9giteV7efPoPXYDhPtzQ@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Avoid WAL archiving when idle?  (David G Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
Re: Avoid WAL archiving when idle?  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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I have WAL archiving setup on Postgres 9.3.2 using WAL-E on CentOS 6.4 using the postgresql.org RPM. This is working fine, except I see a lot of spurious activity in the S3 bucket with wal files being backed up every 5 minutes even when the database is idle. This can make restoring to a dev server really slow if it's been a long time since the last base backup. The only non-default configuration is:

wal_level = archive
archive_mode = on
archive_command = '/usr/local/bin/envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env /tools/python/current/bin/wal-e wal-push %p'
archive_timeout = 60

The 5 minute interval matches the default checkpoint_timeout, so I guess I'm seeing the same problem as mentioned here: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMkU=1wCyN7JNOTXCnCqpULtzNfV8ZWH5BqrqZhA+uGB1x-fTA@mail.gmail.com

Is there anyway I can configure PostgreSQL to avoid continuously archiving WAL files while idle but still place a limit on the time until a database write is archived?

Laurence

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