On Mar 25, 2014, at 3:52 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote:

> On 03/25/2014 01:56 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I have a Postgres 9.3.3 database machine.  Due to some intelligent work on 
>> the part of someone who shall remain nameless, the WAL archive command 
>> included a ‘> /dev/null 2>&1’ which masked archive failures until the disk 
>> entirely filled with 400GB of pg_xlog entries.
>> 
>> I have fixed the archive command and can see WAL segments being shipped off 
>> of the server, however the xlog remains at a stable size and is not 
>> shrinking.  In fact, it’s still growing at a (much slower) rate.
> 
> So what is wal_keep_segments set at in postgresql.conf?
> 

5000.  There are currently about 18000 WAL segments in pg_xlog.

>> 
>> I’ve seen references to people just deleting “old” segment files or using 
>> pg_resetxlog to fix this situation, however I already know that the response 
>> from the mailing list will be “that’s insane, don’t do that”.
>> 
>> So what is the correct solution to pursue here?  The steady state of the 
>> machine should have enough space, I just need to reclaim some of it...  
>> Thanks for any guidance!
>> 
>> Steven
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.kla...@aklaver.com



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