On 03/25/2014 04:52 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote:
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>> Some more questions, what happens when things begin to dawn on me:)
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>> You said the disk filled up entirely with log files yet currently the number(size) of logs is growing.
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> It’s holding stable now. I tried to vacuum up to clean some space which turned out to generate more pg_xlog activity than it saved space, and (I assume) the archiver fell behind and that was the source of the growing log. There haven’t been any new segments since I stopped doing that.
Yea, vacuum just marks space as available for reuse it does not actually
free space.
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