Wells Oliver wrote: > Hi all. I currently have one master and one slave, and the slave cleans up the unneeded WAL files via > pg_archivecleanup. > > I'm adding a third slave and I was wondering what the best practices are in terms of managing these > WAL files when there's more than one dependent server, in a situation where you can't have a slave > removing the files. > > I thought I could just cron up a removal of logs older than X days, which seems pretty easy, but not > sure. cron would work fine. My scripts clean up old archived WAL as part of the backup job - that way I can be sure that no archives are deleted unless they have been backed up first. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin