On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:00 AM Adelino Silva <
adelino.j.si...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What is the advantage to use archive_mode = always in a slave server
> compared to archive_mode = on (shared WAL archive) ?
> I only see duplication of Wal files, what is the purpose of this feature ?
>

You might not have a shared wal archive in the first place.  For example,
your only access to the master is through the streaming replication
protocol, but you want to maintain a local WAL archive anyway so you can
PITR locally for testing or debugging purposes.

Cheers,

Jeff

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