Re: Size of logfiles

Hi!

Just for other users who might have the same question:

With default settings, postgres writes 3 WAL files. Each of them has
the size of 16 mb. They are located at the data directory within the
subdirectory pg_xlog.

Cheers,

Peter

Am 22.05.2007 um 21:22 schrieb Peter Elmers:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for your fast reply. Indeed i ment the normal logfiles. But
> you point me to another question:
>
> I am just reading the manual regarding WAL, but until now, i found
> no hint about the default setting for the redo-logs(WAL).
> Can you give me a hint?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Peter
>
>
> Am 21.05.2007 um 16:44 schrieb Chris Browne:
>
>> p(dot)elmers(at)gmx(dot)de (Peter Elmers) writes:
>>> I have searched the web and am sorry to say that i found nothing
>>> about the default behavior of the log files of postgres.
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me when postgres will delete the logfiles or what
>>> postgres automatically do with them?
>>
>> Can you be a bit more precise about that?
>>
>> There are the WAL log files; I expect you're not talking about that.
>>
>> I expect you're talking about the log files containing error
>> messages,
>> warnings, and such.
>>
>> PostgreSQL will not, itself, purge out such files; consider that you
>> can configure it to distribute log information via syslog, which
>> would
>> push the logs into a mostly OS-managed area.
>>
>> You'll presumably want to figure out what YOU want your policy to be,
>> and find suitable tools (lots available) to implement that policy...
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