On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:39:30 +0530 Atul Kumar <akumar14871@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > HI, > > We have a centos 6 enviornment where postgres 9.6 is running on it. > > We have strange behavior of WAL files of pg_xlog directory > > As we have set archive_command to archive WAL files at different > location and the archive_command is working fine. > > So strange behavior is : > > We have a WAL file say for example "00000001000036CD000000E2" of > 01.06.2021 (1st June 2021) that is getting archive successfully at the > archive location and once it is archived, this file with same name > (00000001000036CD000000E2) is getting generated with the latest > timestamp (as today is 04.06.2021).and all old WAL files are behaving > in same manner. What is you archive_command? I'm not sure I understand correctly, but keep in mind your archive_command must be "read only". Do not remove the WAL file after archiving it. Regards,