Re: WAL shipping and ever expanding pg_xlog

From: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Michael Dengler" <michael(dot)dengler(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WAL shipping and ever expanding pg_xlog
Date: 2007-06-13 15:29:19
Message-ID: b42b73150706130829y7d8f062bu35376a5066069096@mail.gmail.com
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On 6/13/07, Michael Dengler <michael(dot)dengler(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> OK....it looks like the slave machine has run out of space and that caused
> the xlog files to pile up on the master.
>
> Still...how do I prevent such all of the shipped WAL segments from remaining
> on the slave machine? Do I need to retain every single one? Can they be
> safely removed after the slave machine has restored the particular segment?

Are you using the pg_standy utility? It has options to control this...

merlin

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