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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Organization: Archonet Ltd
To: Florian Litot <flitot@besancon.sema.slb.com>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: log file?
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:47:21 +0000
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On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 11:14 am, Florian Litot wrote:
> At 11:47 05/11/02, Richard Huxton wrote:
> >PG writes all transactions to disk before actually making changes so that
> > you can recover in the event of a crash. It splits this transaction log
> > into chunks and recycles them when all the transactions it refers to are
> > no longer of interest.
>
> but the problem is it never recycle this file so i have a got a px_log 2Go
> how i can resolve this problem?
> why it doesn't recycle?

According to the log you posted it was being recycled.

How many files are there in pg_xlog and what dates do they have?
What are the WAL settings in your postgresql.conf file?
Do you have any clients that have been running a long time?

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  Richard Huxton