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From: Greg Smith on 2 Mar 2010 08:32 Simon Riggs wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 13:13 +0000, Greg Stark wrote: > >> Why do we disallow turning off archive_mode anyways? >> > > Because it is needed for safety and nobody has got around to coding the > idea of turning it on/off during normal running, which is possible, with > appropriate care. > It's actually made it pretty high up on the list of desired features for some of the replication projects: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ClusterFeatures#Start.2Fstop_archiving_at_runtime Since that is one of the easier items on that list to actually knock off (probably an order of magnitude so than the average feature there), it's completely feasible somebody will do so for 9.1. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support greg(a)2ndQuadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers(a)postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers |