Re: hot standby data folder bigger than primary

Hi,

On 2014-04-17 06:28:52 -0700, yhe wrote:
> We are using streaming hot standby, no wal shipping.
>
> I checked and base and pg_xlog. both are fine.
>
> The extra space is used by /pg_multixact/members(about 5G) and
> /pg_multixact/offsets(about 1.5G)
>
> The doc said that pg_multixact contains multitransaction data used for
> shared row locks. Is there some process that can clean these two folder when
> the lock is not needed?

Which version are you using? that might be recently (9.3.2 and
corresponding releases) fixed problem.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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