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Subject: Re: Old WAL files under pg_xlog not getting delete
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> On Jan 30, 2019, at 8:09 PM, rammohan ganapavarapu =
<rammohanganap@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> why is it keeping old files?

Because you configured it to:=20

wal_keep_segments=3D500