Re: Issue with WAL files in streaming replication

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> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison(at)prodigy(dot)net
> > wrote:
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>> I have attempted to set up a Postgres 9.5 server as a streaming
>> replication backup (guessing my way through the process after reading the
>> Postgresql documentation and a few tutorials) but am running into an
>> issue. The WAL archive files are not being removed on the backup. I'm
>> wondering if everything is OK and I should have discontinued the WAL
>> archive process or if something else is wrong. Thanks for any help. The
>> following should be the relevant configuration.
>>
>

you should see a recovery.conf in slave server and below line must be
included in that file to delete old archive files.

archive_cleanup_command = '/path/to/pg_archivecleanup /path/to/archive/dir
%r'