On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:49:40PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:11:53PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > > >> What do you think would be the right thing to do with it at this > >> point? > > > > Well, there should probably be a tar files with a README. What > > about adding this to /contrib? > > I would be happy to add it to contrib if people want it there. > There was some discussion of that when I wrote it, but then there > was a feeling that it would be uninteresting once people had > streaming replication. I'm skeptical that people will ever lose > interest in archiving WAL files, because of the not-uncommon need to > keep archival backups or restore to a "point in time" to recover > from a mangled table. As long as those needs are there, I suspect > that people will want to compress WAL files, including making > partially-filled files smaller.
Agreed. Please move forward on the contrib idea. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
