| From: | rammohan ganapavarapu <rammohanganap(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Old WAL files under pg_xlog not getting delete |
| Date: | 2019-01-31 03:09:40 |
| Message-ID: | CALm_Vjhf4AJF_=rvOMmmwKcaN3CN0YNnm7Q8RwivpLio8G+i7A@mail.gmail.com |
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Thank you all, but irrespective of count i have why is it keeping old
files? and how is it using those files? Is there any processes that can
flush or remove those files?
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 4:11 PM David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:00 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > Hmm ... I would recommend to keep the xlog files in a subdir, not the
> > root of the filesystem.
>
> They are in a subdir (under /opt/pgdata), and the OP seems likely to
> have omitted the self/parent hidden directories during his check as
> well. Plus per the docs we actually expect 501 so there isn't a need
> to account for 6 extra, just 5.
>
> Dave
>
>
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