Re: Streaming Replication and archiving

Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Thanks Dimitri, I'd missed that thread. Ok, slave will need a suitable
>> restore_comand in addition to primary_conninfo in recovery.conf, and
>> then extended communication failures (or shutting down the slave for a
>> while!) will not break the streaming setup (FWIW I tried this just now).
>>     
>
> Sure, but if the archived WAL segments are NOT needed, how are they
> supposed to get deleted?  It doesn't take long to run out of disk space
> if they're not being rotated.
>
>   

+1
From what I am seeing at the moment (8.5 devel from 2 days ago), the 
archived segments are not deleted at all (I have several hundred now 
after a number of pgbench runs over the last day or so).

regards

Mark