On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/18/2013 12:15 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote: >> >> A possibly related question: >> >> I've set wal_keep_segments to 10,000 and also have archive_command >> running wal-e. I'm seeing my wal files disappear from pg_xlog after 30 >> minutes. Is that expected? Is there a way around that? > > > Well a WAL segment is 16MB in size so that should give you a basis for > determining whether the above is appropriate, my guess it is not. I do not > know enough about Wal-e, but my guess is it is siphoning off WAL segments > before you want it to. Don't some operations like forced checkpoints etc skip to the next WAL resulting in them not necessarily being "full"? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general