Holger Jakobs wrote: > > Am 09.09.22 um 06:56 schrieb Victor Sudakov: > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > With archive_mode='on' and archive_command='', is there a limit on WAL > > files accumulation or will they be kept infinitely until the disk is > > full? > > > > Actually I'd prefer them to be kept infinitely, just want to make sure > > it's really the case. > > > There is no limit. The disk will run full. That's actually great that unarchived WAL files will never get deleted or reused. Thank you for confirming this. I was pretty sure about the situation when the archive_command returns a non-zero status, but not so sure about an empty archive_command. > > That's why disk space is the #1 priority in monitoring a PostgreSQL > instance. -- Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE http://vas.tomsk.ru/ 2:5005/49@fidonet
