Hi List; I'm wanting to better understand wal / checkpoint segments. I have a cluster which has checkpoint_segments set to 32 and wal_buffers set to 24. I see consistently 66 files in pg_xlog and I've recently implemented wal archiving and so far there are 41 segments/files in the wal archive dir. What's the relationship between wal_buffers and checkpoint_segments? even though the max distance between checkpoints is 32 segments, is there something that controls the number of files/segments in the pg_xlog dir ? Thanks in advance /Kevin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly