On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Mason Hale wrote:
After the wal segment file is copied by the restore_command script, is it safe to delete it from my archive?
While I believe you can toss them immediately, you should considering keeping those around for a bit regardless as an additional layer of disaster recovery resources. I try to avoid deleting them until a new base backup is made, because if you have the last backup and all the archived segments it gives you another potential way to rebuild the database in case of a large disaster damages both the primary and the secondary. You can never have too many ways to try and recover from such a situation.
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