Re: stale WAL files?

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 6:30 PM Rene Romero Benavides <
rene(dot)romero(dot)b(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 5:03 PM Gmail <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> > On Mar 30, 2019, at 10:54 AM, Gmail <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> >>>> On Mar 29, 2019, at 6:58 AM, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
>> wrote:
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>> >>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 09:53:16AM -0600, Rob Sargent wrote:
>> >>> This is pg10 so it's pg_wal. ls -ltr
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> -rw-------. 1 postgres postgres 16777216 Mar 16 16:33
>> >>> 0000000100000CEA000000B1
>> >>> -rw-------. 1 postgres postgres 16777216 Mar 16 16:33
>> >>> 0000000100000CEA000000B2
>> >>>
>> >>> ... 217 more on through to ...
>> >>>
>> >>> -rw-------. 1 postgres postgres 16777216 Mar 16 17:01
>> >>> 0000000100000CEA000000E8
>> >>> -rw-------. 1 postgres postgres 16777216 Mar 16 17:01
>> >>> 0000000100000CEA000000E9
>> >>> -rw-------. 1 postgres postgres 16777216 Mar 28 09:46
>> >>> 0000000100000CEA0000000E
>> > I’m now down to 208 Mar 16 WAL files so they are being processed (at
>> least deleted). I’ve taken a snapshot of the pg_wal dir such that I can
>> see which files get processed. It’s none of the files I’ve listed previously
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>> Two more have been cleaned up. 001C and 001D generated at 16:38 Mar 16
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>> Please share your complete postgresql.conf file and the results from this
> query:
> SELECT * FROM pg_settings;
> has someone in the past configured wal archiving?
> You've ran out of disk space as this log message you shared states:
> No space left on device
> what's the output of df -h
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BTW , how spread apart are checkpoints happening? do you have stats on
that? maybe they're too spread apart and that's why WAL files cannot be
recycled rapidly enough?
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