Re: pg_archivecleanup not deleting anything?

From: Paul Jungwirth <pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_archivecleanup not deleting anything?
Date: 2015-11-02 16:41:31
Message-ID: 5637923B.4030308@illuminatedcomputing.com
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> So, as Albe posted pg_archivecleanup is only cleaning up the WAL files,
> not the auxiliary files. The WAL files would be the ones with no
> extension and a size of 16 MB(unless someone changed the compile settings).

Okay, thank you both for the explanation! I'm glad to hear that it's not
a misconfiguration on our side. I guess we should just make sure we
remove older *.backup files by some other means, because thousands of
16MB files add up eventually. We had more than 30k of them!

Paul

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