On Oct 26, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Brian Wipf wrote:
> I have a test PG 8.2.5 installation that has been left idle with no
> connections to it whatsoever for the last 24 hours plus. WALs are
> being archived exactly 5 minutes apart, even though archive_timeout
> is set to 60. Is this the expected behavior for a database with no
> changes?
>
> Brian
In the absence of activity, WAL are archived every checkpoint_timeout
seconds. archive_timeout is how long postgres will wait for the
archive_command to return before declaring it failed.
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