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From: Simon Luijk <simonluijk@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Wal archives building up in slave pg_xlog dir
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:39:33 +0100
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So I have turned archive_mode off on the slave. At first I thought this solved it but
the logs are still building up. Could anyone shed some light on why the logs are building
up in pg_xlog?

Thank you
Simon
On Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 22:16, Simon Luijk wrote: 
> I have a master slave setup that is on the most part working smoothly. The logs are getting
> shipped to the slave, the slave is requesting them and then applying them.
> 
> The problem is that the logs are building up in the pg_xlog dir and not overwriting. I do have
> archive_mode on in postgresql.conf so when the slave needs to come online as the new
> primary it start shipping its logs. Is this setting effecting recovery mode too?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
> 

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