On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > In the repmgr README, it suggests configuration should include: > > archive_mode = on > archive_command = 'cd .' > > Could someone explain why we need archive_mode enabled? In my own testing of > Pg's streaming replication, I've found it to work without this enabled. > it's not really needed but in some situations you could want to archive wal segments (for example if you want to shut down the standby without having to put a really big value in wal_keep_segments) and while archive_command can be changed at anytime just reloading archive_mode needs to restart the server. so this is just a good configuration for 24x7 setups -- Jaime Casanova www.2ndQuadrant.com Professional PostgreSQL: Soporte 24x7 y capacitación -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
