Re: WAL log management w/ multiple slaves

Wells Oliver wrote:
> Hi all. I currently have one master and one slave, and the slave cleans up the unneeded WAL files via
> pg_archivecleanup.
> 
> I'm adding a third slave and I was wondering what the best practices are in terms of managing these
> WAL files when there's more than one dependent server, in a situation where you can't have a slave
> removing the files.
> 
> I thought I could just cron up a removal of logs older than X days, which seems pretty easy, but not
> sure.

cron would work fine.

My scripts clean up old archived WAL as part of the backup job - that way I can be sure
that no archives are deleted unless they have been backed up first.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe