Re: WAL shipping and ever expanding pg_xlog

Doug Knight just informed me about the pg_standby module.

Works like a charm!

Thanks

Mike

On 6/13/07, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> 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
>