On Monday, January 31, 2011 3:32:16 pm Jeff Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I started trying to setup streaming replication here at work the first
> of December but I didn't actually succeed until today. Too many other
> crises to attend to ;-)
>
> In the meantime, I now have 242 16MB files in pg_xlog/. The
> archive_status directory in pg_xlog/has a matching .done file for all
> but the most recent of those pg_xlog files.
>
> Am I correct in thinking that I can delete most if not all of the
> pg_xlog/ files that have a matching .done entry in
> pg_xlog/archive_status/ ? Or is there a better way?
>
> Sorry in advance if this is in the docs somewhere--I haven't found it yet.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Ross
What do you have wal_keep_segments set to in postgresql.conf?
See here for more detail:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/runtime-config-wal.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-REPLICATION
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Adrian Klaver
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