Re: What process clears the logs?

Hello Carol,
Maybe I'm thinking wrong, but I have a problem like yours; and I realize
that the vacuum Freeze that does that work.
I have read that somewhere in the net, that I don't remember now.

To prevent that I created a proccess that run every night, that vacuums the
database, and started the vacuum daemon.
All machines I had problems are Slony-slaves.

Best Regards,

Rafael Domiciano
Postgres DBA

2008/9/30 Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>

> Carol Walter wrote:
>
>> Ah-h-h, that's exactly my question. What part of Postgres "takes care of
>> this itself." I'm asking because I had 86 pg_clog files dated back to
>> mid-May. I got the impression from something Tom said that backups should
>> prune this directory. Perhaps my "impression" was wrong. Most databases
>> I've used in the past have gotten rid of the transaction logs, etc, when a
>> backup is done. The restore process used that last backup and then applied
>> the transaction logs to it. Once another backup was completed the old
>> transaction logs were no longer needed. I'm trying to understand what
>> happens "under the hood" so to speak. What checkpoint_settings value are
>> you referring to?
>>
> Sorry. I had a brain/fingers disconnect. I meant the "checkpoint_segments"
> setting. Anyway, answers to a number of your questions regarding write-ahead
> logging may be found here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/wal-configuration.html
>
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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