Re: Force WAL cleanup on running instance

2020-03-11 Thread Torsten Krah
Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2020, 11:46 -0500 schrieb Jerry Sievers: > If your site can afford a restart after the bulk load, > > 1. Clean shutdown. > 2. pg_resetwal > 3. Start > > That should leave you with a very small N WAL files, perhaps just 1, > though I've not run it lately to reverify. Thank

Re: Force WAL cleanup on running instance

2020-03-11 Thread Paul Förster
Hi Justin, that came to my mind also. Then I tried and found that not always a new WAL is created. I admit I tried on a test DC with no other transactions going on. Maybe I should have done that. Anyway, I also always do the checkpoint first and then the WAL switch, which in my case is also an

Re: Force WAL cleanup on running instance

2020-03-11 Thread Jerry Sievers
Torsten Krah writes: > Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2020, 15:45 + schrieb Simon Riggs: > >> The size of the task varies, so sometimes takes longer than 60s, >> depending >> upon your hardware. > > Yes that's what I am observing and why I am asking if there is some > select statement or command whic

Re: Force WAL cleanup on running instance

2020-03-11 Thread Torsten Krah
Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2020, 15:45 + schrieb Simon Riggs: > The size of the task varies, so sometimes takes longer than 60s, > depending > upon your hardware. Yes that's what I am observing and why I am asking if there is some select statement or command which triggers that task and returns af

Re: Force WAL cleanup on running instance

2020-03-11 Thread Justin
Question everyone isn't this a problem with the order of operations? switching the wal files then running checkpoint means the Checkpoint can cross wal files, so the previous wal file can not be deleted??? To my understanding the order operations should be Checkpoint which flushes everything

Re: Force WAL cleanup on running instance

2020-03-11 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 08:59, Torsten Krah wrote: > Hi, > > I am building a docker image with a postgresql 12.2 instance and while > doing so and importing a dump and running some update scripts wal size > is increasing. > > When finished I don't need all those wal files anymore and tried to > fo

Re: Force WAL cleanup on running instance

2020-03-11 Thread Torsten Krah
Am Mittwoch, den 11.03.2020, 08:42 -0600 schrieb Michael Lewis: > I don't know the answer to your stated question. I am curious if you > have > set wal_level = minimal and if not, if that would be appropriate for > your > use case and might render your concern a non-issue. Hi Micheal, I am alread

Re: Force WAL cleanup on running instance

2020-03-11 Thread Michael Lewis
I don't know the answer to your stated question. I am curious if you have set wal_level = minimal and if not, if that would be appropriate for your use case and might render your concern a non-issue.