| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Christian Kastner <techmail(at)kvr(dot)at>, Wayne Conrad <wconrad(at)yagni(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_xlog not cleaned up |
| Date: | 2006-08-01 00:53:34 |
| Message-ID: | 1154393614.3226.87.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 22:18 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > What PostgreSQL version are you using? I know the *.backup file removal
> > was added in 8.1:
> >
> > * Remove old "*.backup" files when we do pg_stop_backup() (Bruce)
> > This prevents a large number of "*.backup" files from existing in
> > "/pg_xlog".
> >
> > but the existance of the files should not cause problems.
>
> It's 8.1.4, running on FC 5.
>
> It does not cause any active problems, but the WAL archiving fails until
> the *.backup and *.done files are removed manually, after which all the
> "ready" WAL segments are archived away normally.
This is a known problem fixed on June 22 and the fix has been applied to
8.1 branch as well as what will become 8.2.
The next point release for 8.1 should have that included.
--
Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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