Re: WAL Files checkpoint_timeout with voluminous delete/insert

From: Hervé Piedvache <herve(at)elma(dot)fr>(by way of Hervé Piedvache <herve(at)elma(dot)fr>)
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: WAL Files checkpoint_timeout with voluminous delete/insert
Date: 2003-08-26 17:25:22
Message-ID: 200308261925.22784.herve@elma.fr
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Hi Tom, (sorry again but no answer about this any idea ?)

Le Vendredi 22 Août 2003 22:43, Tom Lane a écrit :
> =?iso-8859-15?q?Herv=E9=20Piedvache?= <herve(at)elma(dot)fr> writes:
> > I have a dedicated partition on the disk for the WAL files, 2Gb.
> >
> > So I start my script and saw the size of the pg_xlog partition groing
> > quickly to be full after 20 min ...
>
> That shouldn't happen, unless there's something preventing automatic
> checkpoints from occurring. What do you have checkpoint_segments set
> to?

#checkpoint_segments = 3 # in logfile segments, min 1, 16MB each

Unset in the config file ... so default value ... 3 ?

So, any idea of my problem ?

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Hervé Piedvache

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