Greg Smith <gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > You also don't want to be the guy who has to explain why the database is > taking hours to come back up again after it crashed and has 4000 WAL > segments to replay, because archiving failed for a long time and prevented > proper checkpoints (ask Robert Treat if you don't believe me, he also once > was that guy). Say what? Archiver failure can't/shouldn't prevent checkpointing. regards, tom lane