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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Paul Brindusa <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pg_wal folder high disk usage
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:11:04 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFeSbqjySUzp_Q4XNR_ajnV84O=om0f5rzpjPsQaNitDkxXjHw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFeSbqjySUzp_Q4XNR_ajnV84O=om0f5rzpjPsQaNitDkxXjHw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2024-10-31 at 10:36 +0000, Paul Brindusa wrote:
> On one of our postgres instances we have the pg_wal/data folder up to 196GB, out of 200GB disk filled up.
> This has stopped the posgresql.service this morning causing two applications to crash.
> Unfortunately our database admin is on leave today, and we are trying to figure out how to get the disk down?
> Any ideas or suggestions are more than welcome.

Check why pg_wal is growing:
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/why-does-my-pg_wal-keep-growing/

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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