Re: RDS No free space

I'm not too familiar with that. Can you point me in the direction of some
config settings and maybe queries to execute?

On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 10:43 AM Jim Mlodgenski <jimmy76(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 1:38 PM Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com>
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>> So we run on RDS, and we clearly used up all of our provisioned storage.
>> However, I am baffled, and while I am emailing our AWS support, I wondered
>> if this list might point me in some direction too.
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>> Our provisioned storage was 15TB. The size of our database -- shown
>> in pg_database -- is only 6TB. What in the world could be using that
>> remaining space? I am at a loss, that's a _ton_ of space being used up. Is
>> it some temporary allocation during script execution (seems ginormous,
>> impossible)? It it some WAL log thing?
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> A fairly common cause of this is orphan replication slots so WAL files are
> retained. Check
> to see if there is an inactive slot that may be preventing the files to be
> removed.
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