archive_timeout - good indication

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Dear all,

What would be a good indication for 'archive_timeout' on a busy server?

Thanks

Renato


Renato Oliveira
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Renato Oliveira [ Fr, 09 April 2010 10:00 ] [ ID #2038298 ]

Re: archive_timeout - good indication

Renato Oliveira <renato.oliveira [at] grant.co.uk> wrote:

> What would be a good indication for 'archive_timeout' on a busy
> server?

The maximum amount of time for which you can tolerate lost
transactions in case you need to use the backup for crash recovery.
Note that you need to balance that need against the space
requirements of the WAL files. You can mitigate the space problem
by using pg_clearxlogtail or pglesslog.

-Kevin

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Kevin Grittner [ Fr, 09 April 2010 16:22 ] [ ID #2038309 ]

Re: archive_timeout - good indication

Kevin,

Thank you for the reply.
I guess 60Sec is a valid option if this is the 'time period' we can tolerat=
e.

PS pg_clearxlogtail I tried to lookup more info about it but could not find=
much.
With regards to pglesslog I found the site which hosts the project, seems i=
nteresting.

My question is does it copy the logs as well as compresses it, because ther=
e is an example: archive_command =3D 'pg_compresslog "%p" /"%f"'
Is this instead of using 'cp'?

Thank you very much

Best regards

Renato



Renato Oliveira
Systems Administrator
e-mail: renato.oliveira [at] grant.co.uk

Tel: +44 (0)1763 260811
Fax: +44 (0)1763 262410
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Subject: Re: [ADMIN] archive_timeout - good indication

Renato Oliveira <renato.oliveira [at] grant.co.uk> wrote:

> What would be a good indication for 'archive_timeout' on a busy
> server?

The maximum amount of time for which you can tolerate lost
transactions in case you need to use the backup for crash recovery.
Note that you need to balance that need against the space
requirements of the WAL files. You can mitigate the space problem
by using pg_clearxlogtail or pglesslog.

-Kevin



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