Re: Warm Standby looking for already applied log files - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Dimitri Fontaine
Subject Re: Warm Standby looking for already applied log files
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In response to Re: Warm Standby looking for already applied log files  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> I don't suppose there's something which looks *into* a backup file
> and deletes all WAL files not needed to restore the related base
> backup?  That would eliminate an even *uglier* bash script here.

Well with some luck Magnus will be able to complete pg_basebackup in 9.1
so that it's able to include all necessary WAL files, and just them…

I could have missed it but I didn't read about any effort towards
shipping a base backup cleaning tool in 9.1, or even after that.

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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