On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 08:40:31PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 28.10.2020, 21:44 -0500 schrieb Justin Pryzby: > > Forking this thread: > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/fd93f1c5-7818-a02c-01e5-1075ac0d4...@iki.fi
> > I think these are old-fashioned since 9.6 (?), so remove them for v14. > > Why 9.6? My work doesn't currently bring me in contact with replication, so I've had to dig through release notes. I think streaming replication was new in 9.0, and increasingly mature throughout 9.x. Maybe someone else will say a different release was when streaming replication became the norm and wal shipping old. > > I found it confusing when re-familiarizing myself with modern streaming > > replication that there are extensions which only help do things the "old > > way". > > I guess not many will complain about pg_standby going away, but I am > under the impression that pg_archivecleanup is still used a lot in PITR > backup environments as a handy tool to expire WAL related to expired > base backups. I certainly saw hand-assembled shell code fail with "too > many files" and things when it tried to act on large amount of WAL. I anticipate you're right, and I'll withdraw 0002. -- Justin
