Re: Maximum number of WAL files in the pg_xlog directory

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Maximum number of WAL files in the pg_xlog directory
Date: 2014-10-15 21:12:36
Message-ID: 543EE344.2010102@agliodbs.com
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On 10/15/2014 01:25 PM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> Monitoring is another matter, and I don't really think a monitoring
> solution should count the WAL files. What actually really matters is the
> database availability, and that is covered with having enough disk space in
> the WALs partition.

If we don't count the WAL files, though, that eliminates the best way to
detecting when archiving is failing.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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