Hi Michael, archived WAL files are not only useful to a standby server, but are also used for Point In Time Recovery. regards, fabio On 22-02-19 12:19, Michael King wrote: > Hi, > I recently acquired a legacy server. This is running Postgresql 9.3 on Ubuntu 16.04. > There is around 200GB worth of archived wal files (~12,500 files) located on /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/archive. > I have checked and can confirm that this is a standalone server without any Replication setup and no secondary/slave server talking to it. > > Checking the /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf file (write ahead log section), shows the following: > wal_level = minimal > archive_mode = off > archive_command = 'test ! -f /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/archive/%f && cp -i %p /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/archive/%f </dev/null' > > Replication section shows all default values. > > Could you please advice how I can cleanup all of these 200GB worth of files. > I've searched through numerous postgresql books/blogs/articles which all have very good advise on how to setup wal archiving but unfortunately not on how to disable it. > > Kind regards, > Michael >
