Re: Question about wal files / pg_xlogs

postgresql.conf:

archive_command = 'exec nice -n 19 ionice -c 2 -n 7 archive_command.bash "%p" slave01 slave02'

archive_command.bash:

Basically we use TAR to ship through ssh:

# we use tar over SSH as I don't fully trust scp's exit status. The added benefit is that tar preserves all attributes
# the downside is that it's a little tricky to make the remote path relative
tar -c -O --no-same-owner -C "${WAL_SEGMENT%/*}" "${WAL_SEGMENT##*/}" | ssh -p ${NEXT_PORT} -C -o 'BatchMode=yes' -o 'CompressionLevel=3' "${USER}@${NEXT_HOST}" "exec tar -x --no-same-owner --overwrite -C '${WAL_ARCHIVE_PATH}'";
PS_CONCAT="${PIPESTATUS[*]}";

normally, you would ship the archived wal files to a file server via cp-over-nfs or scp, and have the slaves access them as needed via the recovery.conf

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