Re: PG_XLOG 27028 files running out of space

2013/2/14 Tory M Blue <tmblue(at)gmail(dot)com>

> My postgres db ran out of space. I have 27028 files in the pg_xlog
> directory. I'm unclear what happened this has been running flawless for
> years. I do have archiving turned on and run an archive command every 10
> minutes.
>
> I'm not sure how to go about cleaning this up, I got the DB back up, but
> I've only got 6gb free on this drive and it's going to blow up, if I can't
> relieve some of the stress from this directory over 220gb.
>
> What are my options?
>
> Thanks
>
> Postgres 9.1.6
> slon 2.1.2

I can't give any advice right now, but I'd suggest posting more details of
your
setup, including as much of your postgresql.conf file as possible
(especially
the checkpoint_* and archive_* settings) and also the output of
pg_controldata.

Ian Barwick