From: | "Birchall, Austen" <austen(dot)birchall(at)metoffice(dot)gov(dot)uk> |
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To: | "Josh Kupershmidt" <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Removal of WAL logs |
Date: | 2012-01-06 09:53:23 |
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Josh
Thanks for this - I realised after I posted this that I was getting
mixes up in terminology between WAL logs and WAL archiving. As
management of
WAL archiving was what I was after I will as you suggest look at
pg_archivecleanup.
Austen
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Kupershmidt [mailto:schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: 06 January 2012 04:48
To: Birchall, Austen
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Removal of WAL logs
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Birchall, Austen
<austen(dot)birchall(at)metoffice(dot)gov(dot)uk> wrote:
> Hi List
>
> I'm on 8.4.5 in WAL mode
What do you mean by "WAL mode"?
> with a database that has a low transaction rate and will probably be
> running nightly backups.
>
> Is there a recommendation for how many WAL logs I should keep on disk
> in pg_xlog and also how many to keep on external tape?
For a master server (ignoring backup aspects for the moment), the main
reason to allow more WAL files to accumulate in ./pg_xlog/ is to get
some throughput increase, particularly during bulk data loads. See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/wal-configuration.html
specifically the paragraph beginning "There will always be at least one
WAL segment file...".
I'm not sure what you mean by "keep on external tape" bit -- are you
using a cold/warm standby, or otherwise archiving your WAL files to
tape?
> Are there any simple scripts/procedures that will mange the WAL logs
> and in particular delete them from pg_xlog when they are no longer
> needed so that they don't fill up the disk?
Your server should be recycling WAL files. You should never be deleting
these files by hand. (For a standby server, you may need to be cleaning
out copied WAL files once your standby has digested them, but that's a
separate topic -- look up pg_archivecleanup). If you are seeing old WAL
files build up in your ./pg_xlog/ directory, that might indicate some
problem. Check your postmaster log file, especially for some problem
with archive_command which might cause old files to be kept.
Josh
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