Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7AACB5DBFE for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 10:55:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 87074-04 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 13:55:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from locust.cns.vt.edu (locust.cns.vt.edu [198.82.169.14]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95711B5DBE2 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 10:55:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: by locust.cns.vt.edu (Postfix, from userid 986) id 62A32118E16; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:55:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:55:10 -0400 From: Ray Stell To: Jahnavi Chintakunta Cc: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Need help in Postgres log shipping replication Message-ID: <20110706135510.GB17571@cns.vt.edu> References: <6E38555CD4BF19498F17AE18FEBE59654683799A@INFHYDEXMB.corp.infotech-enterprises.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6E38555CD4BF19498F17AE18FEBE59654683799A@INFHYDEXMB.corp.infotech-enterprises.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.409 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, FS_REPLICA=3.599, SARE_SPEC_REPLICA=0.72, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Archive-Number: 201107/35 X-Sequence-Number: 37814 On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:02:22PM +0530, Jahnavi Chintakunta wrote: > > But these files are getting copied continuously and they are not stopping. > > Master is generating pg_xlog files even when there is no activity on the database. How did you determine there was no activity? Have you queried pg_stat_activity during this xlog generation?