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From: Justin Swanhart <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Archive logging not cleaning up pg_wal directory
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 08:28:36 -0400
Message-ID: <CAJM9iN3w3UdA3q4_Xnw+Pg+Nnxe4OAUjLQ7EgLtPe36y4A0HDA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I have the following in my postgresql.conf for archive logging:
archive_command='test ! -f /var/lib/postgresql/prod_archive_logs/%f && cp
%p /var/lib/postgresql/prod_archive_logs/%f'

This command is properly copying the log files to my archive directory but
they remain in the `pg_wal` directory after they are copied, consuming
hundreds of gigs of space.  Am I supposed to create a cron job to clean out
the `pg_wal` directory periodically (keep only 1 day of logs I guess?)

I tried to use mv:
archive_command='test ! -f /var/lib/postgresql/prod_archive_logs/%f && mv
%p /var/lib/postgresql/prod_archive_logs/%f'

When I did this the archives were moved away to the archive directory but
when I tried to set up replication the server could not find the archived
log to replicate from so I changed it to "cp" and now have this problem.

What am I missing?

Regards,

--Justin

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