Re: Reducing excess files in pg_xlog

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PGSQL Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reducing excess files in pg_xlog
Date: 2010-03-22 14:19:01
Message-ID: 18869.1269267541@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I noticed there's 66 files in my pg_xlog directory. I changed my
> checkpoint_segments from 32 to 3 as I noticed it was too high, restarted
> PosgreSQL, but there are still 66 files in that directory and they're taking
> up about 1.1G.

> How can I get this list of files down?

Force a checkpoint, if one hasn't happened already.

regards, tom lane

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