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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:36:46 +0200
From: Thomas SIMON <tsimon@neteven.com>
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Hi,

Have you defined an archive_command ?
What is your value for checkpoint_segments, checkpoint_timeout & 
checkpoint_completion_target ?

Thomas

Le 26/08/2013 05:10, Ed Tarento a écrit :
> Hi admins
> I'm a newbie, I hope this is the right group and admit I have little 
> postgres experience.  I'm working on a VM I can easily re-install so 
> killing it doesn't matter.  The dir is full of 508 files, the last few 
> of which look like:
>
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16777216 Aug 25 02:19 
> 0000000100000001000000FA
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16777216 Aug 25 02:39 
> 0000000100000001000000FB
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres     4096 Jun 13 13:24 archive_status
> root@operations:/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_xlog#
>
> I have root access to the machine but I don't have any postgres 
> access, other than sudo of course.  I've tried stopping my app, 
> ensuring nothing postgres appears in ps and tried deleting the files 
> but when I restarted my app, it didn't work.  I've checked (Google) as 
> many posts as possible but can't find exactly what I need, i.e. the 
> method of removing the offending files cleanly.
>
> Here's as much as I can tell you
> Debian 64 bit running on ESXi
> postgres 9.1
>
> I have some *nix experience, can use vi and sudo and the like
>
> I hope you can help
> Thanks


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