Re: Removing archived wal files on Master

1. archive_mode = off
2. comment or delete archive_command parameter
3. reload the server
If you don't want archive logs, just rm the directory
/var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/archive/ -> there's no harm in deleting them
as you said there's no streaming replication configured.
all your data is in pg_base and and pg_wal/pg_xlog

Happy to help :)
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 4:49 PM Michael King <michaelbking(at)hotmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I recently acquired a legacy server. This is running Postgresql 9.3 on
> Ubuntu 16.04.
> There is around 200GB worth of archived wal files (~12,500 files) located
> on /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/archive.
> I have checked and can confirm that this is a standalone server without
> any Replication setup and no secondary/slave server talking to it.
>
> Checking the /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf file (write ahead
> log section), shows the following:
> wal_level = minimal
> archive_mode = off
> archive_command = 'test ! -f /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/archive/%f && cp
> -i %p /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/archive/%f </dev/null'
>
> Replication section shows all default values.
>
> Could you please advice how I can cleanup all of these 200GB worth of
> files.
> I've searched through numerous postgresql books/blogs/articles which all
> have very good advise on how to setup wal archiving but unfortunately not
> on how to disable it.
>
> Kind regards,
> Michael
>
>