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Rename wal_keep_segments to wal_keep_size.

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max_slot_wal_keep_size that was added in v13 and wal_keep_segments are
the GUC parameters to specify how much WAL files to retain for
the standby servers. While max_slot_wal_keep_size accepts the number of
bytes of WAL files, wal_keep_segments accepts the number of WAL files.
This difference of setting units between those similar parameters could
be confusing to users.

To alleviate this situation, this commit renames wal_keep_segments to
wal_keep_size, and make users specify the WAL size in it instead of
the number of WAL files.

There was also the idea to rename max_slot_wal_keep_size to
max_slot_wal_keep_segments, in the discussion. But we have been moving
away from measuring in segments, for example, checkpoint_segments was
replaced by max_wal_size. So we concluded to rename wal_keep_segments
to wal_keep_size.

Back-patch to v13 where max_slot_wal_keep_size was added.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, David Steele
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/574b4ea3-e0f9-b175-ead2-ebea7faea855@oss.nttdata.com
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Fujii Masao
2020-07-20 13:30:18 +09:00
parent 0bead9af48
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@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ archive_cleanup_command = 'pg_archivecleanup /path/to/archive %r'
archiving, the server might recycle old WAL segments before the standby
has received them. If this occurs, the standby will need to be
reinitialized from a new base backup. You can avoid this by setting
<varname>wal_keep_segments</varname> to a value large enough to ensure that
<varname>wal_keep_size</varname> to a value large enough to ensure that
WAL segments are not recycled too early, or by configuring a replication
slot for the standby. If you set up a WAL archive that's accessible from
the standby, these solutions are not required, since the standby can
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ primary_conninfo = 'host=192.168.1.50 port=5432 user=foo password=foopass'
</para>
<para>
In lieu of using replication slots, it is possible to prevent the removal
of old WAL segments using <xref linkend="guc-wal-keep-segments"/>, or by
of old WAL segments using <xref linkend="guc-wal-keep-size"/>, or by
storing the segments in an archive using
<xref linkend="guc-archive-command"/>.
However, these methods often result in retaining more WAL segments than