Re: standby not cleaning up WAL files often enough

From: Jorge Torralba <jorge(dot)torralba(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Frost <jeff(at)pgexperts(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: standby not cleaning up WAL files often enough
Date: 2015-04-23 00:08:52
Message-ID: CACut7uQRSmW6FpJfjhKu3oC_S-HqxLRcu5BvP8TAK-2VKYsa3g@mail.gmail.com
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More of statng the obvious here :)

Make sure your archive directory is mounted or accessible from the DB
server.

Check your wal_keep_segments. I cant imagine them being 3000 but you never
know.

are you running synchronous or asynchronous replication?

JT

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Jeff Frost <jeff(at)pgexperts(dot)com> wrote:

> It’s a good question, but I’m actually not talking about the WAL files in
> the archive (those are on S3), I’m talking about the WAL files in the
> pg_xlog directory.
>
> > On Apr 22, 2015, at 5:00 PM, Jorge Torralba <jorge(dot)torralba(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Stupid question but it needs to be asked.
> >
> > Do you have this in your recovery.conf file ?
> >
> > archive_cleanup_command = 'pg_archivecleanup path to archived files %r’
>
>

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Thanks,

Jorge Torralba
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