From: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: What process clears the logs?
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:26:42 -0700
Message-ID: <48E27D72.9040409@pinpointresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64D96E8A-8E58-458C-B299-8998112F88FA@indiana.edu>
References: <64D96E8A-8E58-458C-B299-8998112F88FA@indiana.edu>
Carol Walter wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> As you may be aware, we experienced a problem last week with pg_clogs
> that had been deleted, through human error it appears. What process
> will clear or delete the pg_clogs? I've been all over the
> documentation and I'm not finding a reference to this.
>
PostgreSQL takes care of this itself. I don't know where it is
documented but IIRC from old messages, the number of files in pg_xlog
should level out at about two-times your checkpoint_settings value.
I'd have to do some digging as I don't recall for sure, but I think that
if you are using archive_command setting to archive WAL files the
archive command does not return "success", then the WAL file will not be
removed/reused.
Cheers,
Steve
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