Re: pg_archivecleanup not deleting anything?

On 11/02/2015 07:44 AM, Paul Jungwirth wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running Postgres 9.3 in a warm standby configuration, and the slave
> has this setting in recovery.conf:
>
> archive_cleanup_command = '/usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/pg_archivecleanup
> /secure/pgsql/archive/ %r'
>
> But I noticed that the archive directory had files going back to
> February 2014:
>
> $ ls -ltr archive | head
> total 9126292
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres      300 Feb 15  2014
> 000000010000000000000002.00000028.backup
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres      300 Feb 15  2014
> 000000010000000000000003.00000028.backup
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres      300 Feb 15  2014
> 000000010000000000000004.00000028.backup
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres      300 Feb 15  2014
> 000000010000000000000006.00000028.backup
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres      300 Feb 15  2014
> 000000010000000000000007.00000028.backup
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres      300 Feb 15  2014
> 00000001000000000000000B.00000028.backup
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres      300 Feb 15  2014
> 00000001000000000000000C.00000028.backup
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres      300 Feb 15  2014
> 00000001000000000000000E.00000028.backup
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres      300 Feb 15  2014
> 00000001000000000000000F.00000028.backup
>
> And even if I run the command by hand, nothing is actually deleted:
>
> $ pg_archivecleanup -d /secure/pgsql/archive/
> 00000001000000000000000F.00000028.backup
> pg_archivecleanup: keep WAL file
> "/secure/pgsql/archive//00000001000000000000000F" and later
>
> Despite the message, and the same files remain.

Aarg, missed the -r on the ls above. Ignore previous comment.

Is there anything else beside *.backup files in the directory?

>
> Does anyone have any idea why pg_archivecleanup isn't deleting anything?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
>


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