From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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To: | Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: RDS restore failed due to WAL log and disk space-- any tidy fixes? |
Date: | 2024-11-17 18:18:58 |
Message-ID: | 44c1b3003bced2e9eac55184666d22502e97de4d.camel@cybertec.at |
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On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 09:12 -0800, Wells Oliver wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 7:41 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2024-11-16 at 16:33 -0800, Wells Oliver wrote:
> > > I provisioned an RDS instance with 2500GB space and began the restore of a database I know to be about 1750 GB using 16 jobs.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, it died very near the end when it ran out of disk space due to WAL log usage. Lots of:
> > >
> > > 2024-11-17 00:07:09 UTC::@:[19861]:PANIC: could not write to file "pg_wal/xlogtemp.19861": No space left on device
> > >
> > >
> > > And then kaboom.
> > >
> > > I'm wondering what my course of action should be. Can I disable/reduce WAL during a restore?
> > > wal_level is set to replica, can this temporarily be set to minimal? Should I just eat the extra
> > > costs to add headroom for the WAL? Would using fewer jobs during a restore reduce the amount of WAL
> > > created?
> >
> > If you are using minimal WAL logging and you restore the dump in a single transaction, you
> > should see way less WAL generated, because data inserted into the table in the same transaction
> > as the CREATE TABLE statement need not be WAL logged.
> >
> > But you might more easily solve the problem by speeding up or disabling the WAL archiver,
> > so that PostgreSQL removes old WAL after the next checkpoint.
>
> Interesting. I am migrating a pg_dump archive to a new server, in a single go. Does it make sense
> to disable (or speed up?) WAL archiving during the restore, then reenable it after the restore so
> a future replica could work? What would be the steps here? Would disabling or "speeding up" be faster?
Ah, I ignored that you were using a hosted database. Then you probably cannot configure WAL archiving.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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