Re: explosive WAL growth

Has any autovacuum, vacuum, or reindex occurred?
These operations generate lots of WAL depending on the size of the data
related.

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On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 3:10 PM Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com>
wrote:

> Something is causing our WAL to grow 160GB/hour *faster* than archiving.
> (Archiving appears to be working normally.) This started in the past couple
> of days.
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> I am having some trouble finding the cause of this. I am looking at
> pg_stat_statements, # calls, time, shared blocks written. I am also looking
> at recent client app deployments.
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> My next step might be to use something like pg_waldump to see what's in
> this WAL.
>
> Any suggestions?
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