On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Gnanakumar
<gnanam@zoniac.com> wrote:
Hi,
Our production server is running PostgreSQL v8.2.3 on CentOS release 5.2
(Final).
We've setup PITR in our production server. For some reasons, after setting
up PITR, we're not able to manage and maintain it. Eventually, our WAL
archive drive (secondary drive) has become full (100% use) and additional
WAL archive segments that are to be archived got accumulated in pg_xlog/
directory itself (which is available in primary drive)
PITR SETUP DETAILS
There are 2 drives:
1. Primary drive (pgsql/data/ directory resides) is 400 GB.
2. Secondary drive (WAL archives) is 300 GB. All WAL archives are written
to this secondary drive.
Now, we've decided to stop/disable PITR.
My question is, in this situation, how do I stop/disable PITR and safely
clean up all WAL segments from both the drives?
What are the recommended/suggested ways? Experts advice/idea/suggestion on
this are highly appreciated.
1. specify /bin/true as your archive comand. Postgresql will remove wal files waiting for archiving, thinking they are copied successfully.
2. some wal files won't be removed by postgres, as they are already marked as failed to copy. To be safe, wait N days and then remove wal files older then N days.
BTW, I'd rather fix PITR archiving policy. You need to make snapshots sometimes and remove old ones with old wal files. I'm usually doing weekly snapshots keeping 2 of them and having 2 weeks of wal logs - that gives me ability to restore at any point of the 1-2 weeks and restore would go faster for current week (as I'll use latest snaphot for it).
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