Re: pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make CheckRequiredParameterValues() depend upon correct

Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> If you aren't archiving then there's no guarantee that you'll still have
> >> a continuous WAL series starting from the start of the backup.
> 
> > I wasn't really thinking of this use case, but you could set
> > wal_keep_segments "high enough".
> 
> Ah.  Okay, that seems like a workable approach, at least for people with
> reasonably predictable WAL loads.  We could certainly improve on it
> later to make it more bulletproof, but it's usable now --- if we relax
> the error checks.
> 
> (wal_keep_segments can be changed without restarting, right?)

Should we allow -1 to mean "keep all segments"?

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