| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Niels Kristian Schjødt <nielskristian(at)autouncle(dot)com> |
| Cc: | postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why is my pg_xlog directory so huge? |
| Date: | 2013-03-18 09:26:17 |
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Niels Kristian Schjødt
<nielskristian(at)autouncle(dot)com> wrote:
> After installing my new server I just discovered something that doesn't seem right:
>
> sudo du -h /var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main
<snip>
> As you can see the pg_xlog folder is 202G, which is more than my entire database - this seems wrong to me, however I have no clue why this would happen.
My first guess would be that your archive_command is failing - so
check your logs for that. If that command fails, no xlog files will
ever be rotated (since it would invalidate your backups).
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Magnus Hagander
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