Re: [GENERAL] pg_xlog keeps growing

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:20 PM, dhanuj hippie <dhanuj.hippie@gmail.com> wrote:
> So does it work like - it can go upto 16MB*1024 times which is 16GB, and
> then this will be cleaned up automatically ?

On a standby each time a restart point is created the oldest segments
are either recycled or removed, wal_keep_segments retains more of
that. You can look at KeepLogSeg() in
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c if you want..
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Michael