Re: Increasing WAL usage followed by sudden drop

From: delongboy <sdelong(at)saucontech(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Increasing WAL usage followed by sudden drop
Date: 2012-08-17 17:53:39
Message-ID: 1345226019192-5720250.post@n5.nabble.com
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Josh Berkus wrote
>
>> We are not doing anything to postgres that would cause the rise and
>> drop.
>> Data base activity is pretty consistent. nor are we doing any kind
>> of
>> purge. This week the drop occurred after 6 days. We are thinking it
>> must
>> be some kind of internal postgres activity but we can't track it
>> down.
>
> Well, we certainly can't figure it out on this list by blind guessing ...
>

Have to agree with you there. Unfortunately this is where we've ended up.
What can we look at and/or show that would help us to narrow it down? Is
there anyway we can look into the wal file and see exactly what is being
sent? I think this might actually give us the most insight.

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