Re: Old WAL files under pg_xlog not getting delete

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: rammohan ganapavarapu <rammohanganap(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Old WAL files under pg_xlog not getting delete
Date: 2019-01-30 23:10:13
Message-ID: CAKFQuwYdq2Pu-Bwmq-Up+suKyoD3hRdOKhOSU16oYAqHmPOAbg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 3:58 PM rammohan ganapavarapu
<rammohanganap(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I am trying to understand why postgresql not removing WAL logs under pg_xlog in 9.6, below are my settings
>
> wal_keep_segments=500
>
> pg_xlog/|wc -l
> 506

You told PostgreSQL to keep 500 files and it has (the number kept
apparently fluctuates a little bit).

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/wal-configuration.html

David J.

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