Re: BUG #6528: pglesslog still referenced in docs, but no 9.1 support

On Tue, Sep  4, 2012 at 12:49:40PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@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.

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