Type: | enum |
Default: | off |
Context: | postmaster |
Restart: | true |
Values: | [always, on, off] |
When archive_mode
is enabled, completed WAL segments are sent to archive storage by setting archive_command or archive_library. In addition to off
, to disable, there are two modes: on
, and always
. During normal operation, there is no difference between the two modes, but when set to always
the WAL archiver is enabled also during archive recovery or standby mode. In always
mode, all files restored from the archive or streamed with streaming replication will be archived (again). See continuous-archiving-in-standby for details.
archive_mode
is a separate setting from archive_command and archive_library so that archive_command and archive_library can be changed without leaving archiving mode. This parameter can only be set at server start. archive_mode
cannot be enabled when wal_level is set to minimal
.