Re: archiving question

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: "Zwettler Markus (OIZ)" <Markus(dot)Zwettler(at)zuerich(dot)ch>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: archiving question
Date: 2019-12-04 17:56:18
Message-ID: 20191204175618.GH6962@tamriel.snowman.net
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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

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