Re: Allow pg_archivecleanup to remove backup history files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Allow pg_archivecleanup to remove backup history files
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Msg-id ZEhIiaCa2rdc/SLb@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: Allow pg_archivecleanup to remove backup history files  (Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Allow pg_archivecleanup to remove backup history files  (torikoshia <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>)
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 05:29:48PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> I thought that we have decided not to do that, but I coundn't find any
> discussion about it in the ML archive.  Anyway, I think it is great
> that we have that option.

No objections from here to make that optional.  It's been argued for a
couple of times that leaving the archive history files is good for
debugging, but I can also get why one would one to clean up all the
files older than a WAL retention policy.  Even if these are just few
bytes, it can be noisy for the eye to see a large accumulation of
history files mixed with the WAL segments.
--
Michael

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