Re: Trimming transaction logs after extended WAL archive failures

On 03/25/2014 04:52 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote:
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>> Some more questions, what happens when things begin to dawn on me:)
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>> You said the disk filled up entirely with log files yet currently the number(size) of logs is growing.
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> It’s holding stable now.  I tried to vacuum up to clean some space which turned out to generate more pg_xlog activity
thanit saved space, and (I assume) the archiver fell behind and that was the source of the growing log.  There haven’t
beenany new segments since I stopped doing that. 

Yea, vacuum just marks space as available for reuse it does not actually
free space.




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