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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 Section 26.2.9 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.

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boot val

off

category

Write-Ahead Log / Archiving

context

postmaster

documented

true

enumvals

always, on, off

extra desc

Unknown

lang

en

max val

Unknown

metadata version

18

min val

Unknown

name

archive_mode

short desc

Allows archiving of WAL files using "archive_command".

source

pg-settings-source-snapshot

unit

Unknown

vartype

enum