Re: General queston on getting rid of unused WAL files

"Benjamin Krajmalnik" <kraj@servoyant.com> writes:
> Looking at pg_xlogs, I see that postgres is sequentially reusing all of
> the available WAL files, while looking at the log file, it is recycling
> approximately 70-80 files every checkpoint, but it is not removing any
> files.

[ squint... ]  It should be removing those files until it gets under
approximately 2 * checkpoint_segments WAL files.  So, what have you
got checkpoint_segments set to?

            regards, tom lane