Insufficient coffee:
> My environment is a little strange (at least I never read about one
> set up like this before I built it) and has some associated oddities
> in the old segment cleanup process - All of my slaves mount an
> archive partition on the master (read-only) and every log file is
> "picked up" twice: Once to copy it locally, and again to put it
> where Postgres wants it for replay/recovery.
> every slave to bring up a new master. If there's interest I'll post
> a writeup on my blog rather than rambling in an email :)
^^ Should say "That ensures that every slave has the segments I need
to bring it up a new master."
(I swear it made sense when I was typing it! Now I migrate to the
coffee machine...)