> Agreed, but as a reality check: when I proposed that wal_keep_segments > = -1 would keep all WAL segments (for use while the file system was > being backed up), I was told administrators shoud compute how much free > disk space they had. Obviously easy of use is not our #1 priority.
Depends. Running out of disk space isn't exactly user-friendly either. And detecting how much free space is available would be a painful bit of platform-dependant code ... -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers