Re: pg_wal folder high disk usage

From: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Paul Brindusa <paulbrindusa88(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_wal folder high disk usage
Date: 2024-10-31 10:46:40
Message-ID: CANzqJaBVwJG5nJbJMPdO4dDr0V234RDmOekXoWvyu3uCHJTjXg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 6:36 AM Paul Brindusa <paulbrindusa88(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> On one of our postgres instances we have the pg_wal/data folder up to
> 196GB, out of 200GB disk filled up.
> This has stopped the posgresql.service this morning causing two
> applications to crash.
> Unfortunately our database admin is on leave today, and we are trying to
> figure out how to get the disk down?
> Any ideas or suggestions are more than welcome.
>

Is data supposed to be replicated to a second (remote) database? Such
growth would be explained if that network link is broken.

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