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: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Old WAL files under pg_xlog not getting delete
Date: 2019-01-31 00:11:04
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZoawTQ5E05OY61cTaiXxcz6kom7gY0-_6wn9=Nqc6kHA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:00 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Hmm ... I would recommend to keep the xlog files in a subdir, not the
> root of the filesystem.

They are in a subdir (under /opt/pgdata), and the OP seems likely to
have omitted the self/parent hidden directories during his check as
well. Plus per the docs we actually expect 501 so there isn't a need
to account for 6 extra, just 5.

Dave

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