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Am 27.05.20 um 12:11 schrieb Pavel Luzanov:
> Hello,
>
> About parameter max_wal_size the documentation 
> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-wal.html#GUC-MAX-WAL-SIZE> 
> says: "Maximum size to let the WAL grow to between automatic WAL 
> checkpoints."
> Is it correct?
>
> The size between automatic WAL checkpoints or the size of all WAL 
> files in the pg_wal directory?

size between checkpoints, size of all wal's can be higher, see 
wal_keep_segments.


Regards, Andreas

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