Re: recovery.conf and archive files

[Rita <rmorgan466@xxxxxxxxx>]

The primary's recovery.conf looks like this

listen_address='*'

wal_level=replica

synchronous_commit=local

archive_move = on

archive_command = 'cp %p /var/lib/pgsql/11/data/archive/%f'

max_wal_senders = 10

wal_keep_segments=10

synchronous_standby_names='standby0'

wal_log_hints=on

On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 8:45 AM Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Le dim. 9 oct. 2022 à 13:54, Rita <rmorgan466@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

I have primary and standby replication setup.

On my primary the archive directory is rather large (30GB) and growing. On my standby I have recovery.conf which has 

archive_cleanup_command = 'pg_archivecleanup -d /var/lib/pgsql/11/data/archive %r'

I was under the impression this line would remove data from my primary AND standby. Is that not the case?

pg_archivecleanup will clean up the *local* directory. It won't clean up the archive directory if it's stored on the primary.

If I misunderstood your issue, it would be great to send us the postgresql.conf file from your primary.

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Guillaume.

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