Re: pg_xlog not cleaned up

Simon Riggs wrote:
> 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.

In that case, I can work around this easily until the next release.

Thank you for clearing this up!
Chris

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