From: Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Database size stays constant but disk space keeps shrinking -- postgres 9.1
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 14:53:51 -0700 (PDT)
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Gabriele --
----- Original Message -----
> From: Gabriele Bartolini <Gabriele.Bartolini@2ndQuadrant.it>
> To: Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39@yahoo.com>
> Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Database size stays constant but disk space keeps shrinking -- postgres 9.1
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:02:23 -0700 (PDT), Greg Williamson
> <gwilliamson39@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Other than abandoning repmgr I don't see a solution. I've posted
> this
>> to the repmgr discussion group but have had zero responses (and,
>> frankly, am not holding my breath).
>
> If you are 100% sure it is repmgr ... :)
>
> I am not 100% sure it is ... Under normal circumstances (once the standby has
> been cloned), repmgr simply controls the status of a standby server
> communicating with a master through the streaming replication protocol. As any
> other standby would do.
>
Indeed -- stopping repmgr has lef to a continued accumulation of the dead but not gone file handles, but almost all are now owned by the application, with only a few held by WAL shipping and the like. So repmgr was just getting the blame, unfairly.
Am working on the code itself now.
Thanks for the response!
Greg W.
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