public inbox for [email protected]  
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Priancka Chatz <[email protected]>
To: Paul Brindusa <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pg_wal folder high disk usage
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:48:08 +0100
Message-ID: <CANnOdgbcUUgq3LxnyxNwf-7587HvGizO-zRMR2ZUZXWXtSLp=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFeSbqjySUzp_Q4XNR_ajnV84O=om0f5rzpjPsQaNitDkxXjHw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFeSbqjySUzp_Q4XNR_ajnV84O=om0f5rzpjPsQaNitDkxXjHw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

You might wanna check if archive backups(id enabled) are happening and/or
if there is replication lag or replication broken if you have replicas.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 11:36 AM Paul Brindusa <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> 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.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Paul Brindusa
> [email protected]
>
>


reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: pg_wal folder high disk usage
  In-Reply-To: <CANnOdgbcUUgq3LxnyxNwf-7587HvGizO-zRMR2ZUZXWXtSLp=w@mail.gmail.com>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox