On Thu, 2024-10-31 at 10:36 +0000, Paul Brindusa wrote:
> On one of our postgres instances we have the pg_wal/data folder up to 196GB, out of 200GB disk filled up.
> This has stopped the posgresql.service this morning causing two applications to crash.
> Unfortunately our database admin is on leave today, and we are trying to figure out how to get the disk down?
> Any ideas or suggestions are more than welcome.
Check why pg_wal is growing:
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/why-does-my-pg_wal-keep-growing/
Yours,
Laurenz Albe