On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:10 PM, Wells Oliver wrote:
> So, now I have 16GB of WAL segments, 974 of them. Will postgresql clean this up? Will it remove these files? Will it create more with big inserts?
>
> What is the best way to manage this?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/pgarchivecleanup.html
you can use this in conjunction with your backup facility/scipts. Don't want to clean them up until you have a backup, right?