The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 16523
Logged by: yi Ding
Email address: abcxiaod@126.com
PostgreSQL version: 10.13
Operating system: linux
Description:
Assuming that the current wal log's logseq is 00000008 and wal_keep_segments
is 2, then wal logs before [all timelines + logid + 00000006] will be
recycled
In some cases:，The database restarts repeatedly, resulting in many wal logs
with different timelines which their segment numbers are all 00000007. In
this case, even if the size of the wal logs are very large and exceed the
max_wal_size, they will not be cleaned up.
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.9K Jun 29 10:31 0000002D.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 0000002D0000000000000007
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.0K Jun 29 10:31 0000002E.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 0000002E0000000000000007
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.0K Jun 29 10:31 0000002F.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 0000002F0000000000000007
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.1K Jun 29 10:31 00000030.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 000000300000000000000007
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.1K Jun 29 10:31 00000031.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 000000310000000000000007
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.1K Jun 29 10:31 00000032.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 000000320000000000000007
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.2K Jun 29 10:31 00000033.history
Actual environment：
[postgres@3cf842e4-4f8b-4d26-a123-4cb94dd2369f-pgsrv-1 ~]$ du -sh
/pg_xlog/
9.8G /pg_xlog/
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.9K Jun 29 10:31 0000002D.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 0000002D000000000000001A
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.0K Jun 29 10:31 0000002E.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 0000002E000000000000001A
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.0K Jun 29 10:31 0000002F.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 0000002F000000000000001A
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.1K Jun 29 10:31 00000030.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 00000030000000000000001A
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.1K Jun 29 10:31 00000031.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 00000031000000000000001A
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.1K Jun 29 10:31 00000032.history
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Jun 29 10:31 00000032000000000000001A
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 2.2K Jun 29 10:31 00000033.history
postgres=# show max_wal_size;
max_wal_size
--------------
2GB
(1 row)
postgres=# show wal_keep_segments ;
wal_keep_segments
-------------------
40
(1 row)