Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>> If you keep falling further and further behind, eventually your pg_xlog
>> directory will fill the space available on its disk, and I think at that
>> point PG will panic and shut down because it can't create any more xlog
>> segments.
> Hang on, are you supposed to MOVE or COPY away WAL segments?
COPY. The checkpoint code will then delete or recycle the segment file,
as appropriate.
regards, tom lane