Re: Massive insert created 975 WAL segments.. what?

From: Ray Stell <stellr(at)vt(dot)edu>
To: Wells Oliver <wellsoliver(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Massive insert created 975 WAL segments.. what?
Date: 2012-09-12 01:45:41
Message-ID: 702E8E72-E666-4870-B7F2-0B8FAC0781BC@gmail.com
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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?

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