| From: | Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: WAL & ready files retained after turning off log shipping |
| Date: | 2017-09-07 22:10:13 |
| Message-ID: | 180b106d-e365-ea2f-ede0-e1169e4511ae@cox.net |
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On 09/07/2017 05:07 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Manual cleanup shouldn't be very hard, fortunately. Run pg_controldata
>> to see where the last checkpoint is, and delete WAL files whose names
>> indicate they are before that (but not the one including the checkpoint!).
>> If you don't intend to do archiving any more, you can just flush all the
>> .ready files (and .done if any) without much thought.
> It would be less risky to do that as a two-time move:
> - First change archive_command to /sbin/true and let all archives be
> switched to .done.
> - And then disable archive_mode.
Interesting. Thanks.
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