On Mar 25, 2014, at 3:52 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/25/2014 01:56 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have a Postgres 9.3.3 database machine. Due to some intelligent work on the part of someone who shall remain nameless, the WAL archive command included a ‘> /dev/null 2>&1’ which masked archive failures until the disk entirely filled with 400GB of pg_xlog entries. >> >> I have fixed the archive command and can see WAL segments being shipped off of the server, however the xlog remains at a stable size and is not shrinking. In fact, it’s still growing at a (much slower) rate. > > So what is wal_keep_segments set at in postgresql.conf? > 5000. There are currently about 18000 WAL segments in pg_xlog. >> >> I’ve seen references to people just deleting “old” segment files or using pg_resetxlog to fix this situation, however I already know that the response from the mailing list will be “that’s insane, don’t do that”. >> >> So what is the correct solution to pursue here? The steady state of the machine should have enough space, I just need to reclaim some of it... Thanks for any guidance! >> >> Steven >> >> >> > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
