On 4/10/19 6:03 PM, Rene Romero Benavides wrote:
What's your current max_wal_size parameter?
SHOW max_wal_size;
If it's 8GB as your configuration's previous value, you would get a
constant share of 512 WAL files. If it's a development environment set
it to the desired size, the smaller the value, the more frequent the
checkpoints, but your checkpoint_timeout value is 300 (5 minutes)
which is likely to be happening first, and thus being the one
triggering checkpoints that often.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 1:12 PM Rob Sargent <robjsarg...@gmail.com
<mailto:robjsarg...@gmail.com>> wrote:
As per your configuration :
max_wal_size = 50GB
this seems to be the cause for the WAL files piling up.
this has been declared twice, the last one is taking effect.
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I've manage to generate another 359 WAL files in a 10 minute span
yesterday (now only 357 remain and I suspect they will wither away
as before). Are these being held simply because of the high
max_wal_size value?
This is a development environment, wherein I'm loading 4M+
records, first into 41 staging tables 100K rows per. In a loop
over each staging table, the data is then placed into application
tables via selects. First select * into "matching table" then
select id into intersection record (id, fixed groupId). Each such
iteration is in it's own transaction. I have dropped and recreate
this same database numerous times working my way up from 100K to
4M records, dialing in application parameters according to number
of primary records. I have not, however, dropped the last
incarnation.
We have not yet reconfigured the max_wal_size parameter, it is still 50GB
postgres-# show max_wal_size
postgres-# ;
max_wal_size
--------------
50GB
(1 row)
I'm sorry, I don't follow your thesis that this setting would lead to
"a constant" 512 WAL files. There was a distinct burst of WALs in a 10
minute period yesterday, and no accumulation since then (though a manual
checkpoint does generate another WAL)
