Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> On 09/07/2017 09:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Manual cleanup shouldn't be very hard, fortunately. Run pg_controldata
>> to see where the last checkpoint is, and delete WAL files whose names
>> indicate they are before that (but not the one including the checkpoint!).
> All WAL files after log shipping was stopped will keep accumulating "forever"?
Hmm ... on second thought, I think if you just remove the .ready/.done
files, the next checkpoint should clean up the old WAL files. That'd
certainly be safer than doing it manually.
regards, tom lane