From: Ray Stell <stellr@vt.edu>
To: Wells Oliver <wellsoliver@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Massive insert created 975 WAL segments.. what?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:45:41 -0400
Message-ID: <702E8E72-E666-4870-B7F2-0B8FAC0781BC@gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:10 PM, Wells Oliver wrote:
> So, now I have 16GB of WAL segments, 974 of them. Will postgresql clean this up? Will it remove these files? Will it create more with big inserts?
>
> What is the best way to manage this?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/pgarchivecleanup.html
you can use this in conjunction with your backup facility/scipts. Don't want to clean them up until you have a backup, right?
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