From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Yambu <hyambu@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Balashov <abalashov@evaristesys.com>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: pg_wal keeps growing
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 13:10:49 -0300
Message-ID: <20210203161049.GA2457@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALhHtcBc7iH7c5pjHqfcVpmZfMEhf5an1mQvX2ss1N+xNwvquw@mail.gmail.com>
On 2021-Feb-03, Yambu wrote:
> There were some unused replication slots. Can i now delete the old files in
> pg_wal, or they will clear on their own?
Never delete anything from pg_wal. Let the system handle that. They
should start to clear in a checkpoint or two. (You may want to execute
a manual checkpoint to speed up the process.)
--
Álvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile
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