AW: archiving question

From: "Zwettler Markus (OIZ)" <Markus(dot)Zwettler(at)zuerich(dot)ch>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: AW: archiving question
Date: 2019-12-05 15:04:55
Message-ID: 200ee00c33104728b9a6b8df8ca90226@zuerich.ch
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>
> Greetings,
>
> * Zwettler Markus (OIZ) (Markus(dot)Zwettler(at)zuerich(dot)ch) wrote:
> > When there is a Postgres archiver stuck because of filled pg_xlog and archive
> directories...
> >
> > ... and the pg_xlog directory had been filled with dozens of GBs of xlogs...
> >
> > ...it takes ages until the archive_command had moved all xlogs from the
> pg_xlog directory to the archive directory afterwards...
> >
> > ... and you get crazy if you have a 8GB archive directory while the
> > pg_xlog directory had been pumped up to 100GB :(
> >
> >
> > Any idea on this one?
>
> Parallelizing the archive-push operation can be quite helpful to address this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen

What do you mean hear?

Afaik, Postgres runs the archive_command per log, means log by log by log.

How should we parallelize this?

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