What's your current max_wal_size parameter?
SHOW max_wal_size;
If it's 8GB as your configuration's previous value, you would get a constant share of 512 WAL files. If it's a development environment set it to the desired size, the smaller the value, the more frequent the checkpoints, but your checkpoint_timeout value is 300 (5 minutes) which is likely to be happening first, and thus being the one triggering checkpoints that often.
As per your configuration :
max_wal_size = 50GB
this seems to be the cause for the WAL files piling up.
this has been declared twice, the last one is taking effect.
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I've manage to generate another 359 WAL files in a 10 minute span yesterday (now only 357 remain and I suspect they will wither away as before). Are these being held simply because of the high max_wal_size value?
This is a development environment, wherein I'm loading 4M+ records, first into 41 staging tables 100K rows per. In a loop over each staging table, the data is then placed into application tables via selects. First select * into "matching table" then select id into intersection record (id, fixed groupId). Each such iteration is in it's own transaction. I have dropped and recreate this same database numerous times working my way up from 100K to 4M records, dialing in application parameters according to number of primary records. I have not, however, dropped the last incarnation.
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