Re: Stupid question about WAL archiving

On Friday 18 January 2008 09:17:10 Glyn Astill wrote:
> My server ran out of disk space because my archive directory was full
> ow write ahead logs.
>
> My warm standby had lost it's mounted NFS volume and thus stopped
> reading in the archives from the master.
>
> Would I have run out of space if the standby hadn't stopped reading
> them in?
>
> I.e, should I be deleting the old logs myself or should the warm
> standby be managing them?

either delete them yourself, use a cron job to delete them (something like
find . -mtime 60 -delete) , or if you are using pg_standby look at -k (which
specifies the number of old files to keep

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