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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Yambu <hyambu@gmail.com>
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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