I was referring to the logs in the archive folder specified when WAL archiving is turned on...not the pg_xlog folder. I assume postgres will not use the logs in the archive folder -----Original Message----- From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:35 AM To: Andy Shellam Cc: Sriram Dandapani; pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] WAL file naming convention On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:51:13PM -0000, Andy Shellam wrote: > As PostgreSQL numbers WALs sequentially, as long as your ls command by > default orders listings by filename, then Yes. Or you could list by the > last modified date/time should give the same effect. But note that the order it creates them in doesn't have much meaning, because it can re-use them. So if you want to know anything about actual current order of usage the filename is meaningless. > _____ > > From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sriram Dandapani > Sent: Saturday, 25 March, 2006 12:30 am > To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [ADMIN] WAL file naming convention > > > > Hi > > > > Is is safe to assume that the unix ls command will return WAL files in the > same sequence as postgres creates them. > > > > e.g will ls <wal-file-folder> return files in the order that postgres > created them > > !DSPAM:14,44248f2235041511888239! -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
