Re: wal archiving question

WAL archives is growing, not the files in pg_xlog.

Regards

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>wrote:

> akp geek wrote:
> > We have postgres 9.0.4 since an year. Replication also set up and works
> fine.
> > On the master. The wal files are growing and it's almost gone to 90% of
> the disk.
> > How can I handle the situation. Can I delete the old files. Please
> advice
>
> Are the WAL files (the ones in pg_xlog) growing or the WAL archives?
>
> If the former, then you maybe got an archiving problem
> (consult the server log).
>
> If the latter, you'd have to manually delete some,
> but take care that you don't delete any that you still
> need either for restoring a backup or for the standby to
> catch up.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>