Siddharth Shah wrote: > I am not using wall based replication ? I no not have frequent & > long transaction , need of checkpoints > Just want to get what data resides in pg_xlog that it takes 16MB without > any transactions. It contains the transaction log files. The files are precreated with a size of 16MB and filled with log entries. There will normally be several of those files around. Since your main objective is to keep size small, you can change the default of 16MB by setting XLOG_SEG_SIZE in src/include/pg_config_manual.h to a smaller value. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general