Gabriele -- ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gabriele Bartolini <Gabriele.Bartolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:41 AM > Subject: Re: Database size stays constant but disk space keeps shrinking -- postgres 9.1 > > Hi Greg, > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:02:23 -0700 (PDT), Greg Williamson > <gwilliamson39@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Other than abandoning repmgr I don't see a solution. I've posted > this >> to the repmgr discussion group but have had zero responses (and, >> frankly, am not holding my breath). > > If you are 100% sure it is repmgr ... :) > > I am not 100% sure it is ... Under normal circumstances (once the standby has > been cloned), repmgr simply controls the status of a standby server > communicating with a master through the streaming replication protocol. As any > other standby would do. > Indeed -- stopping repmgr has lef to a continued accumulation of the dead but not gone file handles, but almost all are now owned by the application, with only a few held by WAL shipping and the like. So repmgr was just getting the blame, unfairly. Am working on the code itself now. Thanks for the response! Greg W. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
