Re: Almost full pg_xlog/

On Monday, January 31, 2011 3:32:16 pm Jeff Ross wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I started trying to setup streaming replication here at work the first

> of December but I didn't actually succeed until today. Too many other

> crises to attend to ;-)

>

> In the meantime, I now have 242 16MB files in pg_xlog/. The

> archive_status directory in pg_xlog/has a matching .done file for all

> but the most recent of those pg_xlog files.

>

> Am I correct in thinking that I can delete most if not all of the

> pg_xlog/ files that have a matching .done entry in

> pg_xlog/archive_status/ ? Or is there a better way?

>

> Sorry in advance if this is in the docs somewhere--I haven't found it yet.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Jeff Ross

What do you have wal_keep_segments set to in postgresql.conf?

See here for more detail:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/runtime-config-wal.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-REPLICATION

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Adrian Klaver

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