Re: pg_wal keeps growing

There were some unused replication slots. Can i now delete the old files in
pg_wal, or they will clear on their own?

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 6:00 PM Alex Balashov <abalashov(at)evaristesys(dot)com>
wrote:

> Are you sure you don’t have a replication slot with no replication
> consumer connected to it?
>
> Replication slots cause WALs to accumulate until someone connects to the
> slot and downloads them.
>
> —
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Feb 3, 2021, at 10:53 AM, Yambu <hyambu(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hello
> >
> > My pg_wal directory keeps growing in size. Im using Pg v10
> >
> > Currently its at 53GB in size.
> >
> > Below are my settings
> >
> > select name,setting,unit from pg_settings where name ilike '%wal%';
> > name | setting | unit
> > ------------------------------+-----------+------
> > max_wal_senders | 10 |
> > max_wal_size | 1024 | MB
> > min_wal_size | 80 | MB
> > wal_block_size | 8192 |
> > wal_buffers | 2048 | 8kB
> > wal_compression | off |
> > wal_consistency_checking | |
> > wal_keep_segments | 0 |
> > wal_level | replica |
> > wal_log_hints | off |
> > wal_receiver_status_interval | 10 | s
> > wal_receiver_timeout | 60000 | ms
> > wal_retrieve_retry_interval | 5000 | ms
> > wal_segment_size | 2048 | 8kB
> > wal_sender_timeout | 60000 | ms
> > wal_sync_method | fdatasync |
> > wal_writer_delay | 200 | ms
> > wal_writer_flush_after | 128 | 8kB
> > (18 rows)
>
>
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