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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Selva manickaraja <mavles78@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Too many WAL(s) despite low transaction
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* Selva manickaraja (mavles78@gmail.com) wrote:
> I'm attaching the file here. As of now it is 874 files within 3 hours.

You have archive_timeout set to '5'.  That means "rotate a log file
every 5 seconds".  You probably want to increase that.

	Thanks

		Stephen

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