Re: General queston on getting rid of unused WAL files

It is set to 1024 (I had set it to that level just in case it was needed
due to a peak in workload), and presently I have 2121 WAL files.
Thanks for the info - just reduced it to 256, and will go form there.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 7:17 PM
To: Benjamin Krajmalnik
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] General queston on getting rid of unused WAL files

"Benjamin Krajmalnik" <kraj(at)servoyant(dot)com> writes:
> Looking at pg_xlogs, I see that postgres is sequentially reusing all
> of the available WAL files, while looking at the log file, it is
> recycling approximately 70-80 files every checkpoint, but it is not
> removing any files.

[ squint... ] It should be removing those files until it gets under
approximately 2 * checkpoint_segments WAL files. So, what have you got
checkpoint_segments set to?

regards, tom lane