Thank you all, but irrespective of count i have why is it keeping old files? and how is it using those files? Is there any processes that can flush or remove those files?
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:00 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Hmm ... I would recommend to keep the xlog files in a subdir, not the > root of the filesystem.
They are in a subdir (under /opt/pgdata), and the OP seems likely to have omitted the self/parent hidden directories during his check as well. Plus per the docs we actually expect 501 so there isn't a need to account for 6 extra, just 5.