pg_wal keeps growing

From: Yambu <hyambu(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: pg_wal keeps growing
Date: 2021-02-03 15:53:30
Message-ID: CALhHtcCBE2mSLp3XWr659ga-KE8_YDh9YGD9jJ0NBD8TBy1RpA@mail.gmail.com
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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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