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<chapter Id="runtime-config">
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<title>Server Configuration</title>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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- The <xref linkend="guc-archive-command"> is only invoked on completed
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- WAL segments. Hence,
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+ on completed WAL segments. Hence,
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if your server generates only little WAL traffic (or has slack periods
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where it does so), there could be a long delay between the completion
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of a transaction and its safe recording in archive storage. To put
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greater than zero, the server will switch to a new segment file
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whenever this many seconds elapse since the last segment file switch.
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Note that archived
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- files that areended early due to a forced switch are still the same
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+ files that areclosed early due to a forced switch are still the same
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length as completely full files. It is therefore unwise to set a very
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short <varname>archive_timeout</> — it will bloat your archive
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storage. <varname>archive_timeout</> settings of a minute or so are