On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:26:33PM -0400, Jeff Janes wrote: > archive_cleanup_command is pretty much obsolete. The modern way to do this > is with streaming replication, using either replication slots or > wal_keep_segments. If the only reason you want an archive is for > replication, then use streaming replication and do away with the archive > completely. There are reasons other than replication that one might want > to keep a WAL archive, but those reasons don't seem to apply to you. And > if they did you almost certainly wouldn't want to run > archive_cleanup_command on it. Personally, I still find archives also very valuable when a standby creation takes a long time because of a large initial base backup and that the partition dedicated to pg_wal is not large enough to support the retention associated with a slot, and it is easier to have larger retention policies in the archives. -- Michael
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