El 10/10/18 a las 04:00, magodo escribió: > > Hello, > > I know there is a tool `pg_archivecleanup`, but it only accepts wal > filename. What if I want to clean up all archived wal before a > specified datetime? > > Though I could check the ctime fo each wal and figure out which to > remove, but it looks like not a elegent way to do this. > > Also I tried to parse each wal and compare with the specified datetime > in a binary-search way, but it is based on the fact that every COMMIT > time in wal is sequential, but it looks like not the case.. > > Hence I wonder what is the best practice for this task? Don't do that manually. Install `barman` and let it take care of removing old WALs which are not needed anyore. Regards, -- Martín Marqués http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services