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From: Ron Johnson <[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 06:46:40 -0400
Message-ID: <CANzqJaBVwJG5nJbJMPdO4dDr0V234RDmOekXoWvyu3uCHJTjXg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 6:36 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.
>

Is data supposed to be replicated to a second (remote) database? Such
growth would be explained if that network link is broken.

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