Re: standby not cleaning up WAL files often enough

On Apr 22, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Jorge Torralba <jorge.torralba@gmail.com> wrote:

More of statng the obvious here :)

Make sure your archive directory is mounted or accessible from the DB server.

Check your wal_keep_segments. I cant imagine them being 3000 but you never know.

are you running synchronous or asynchronous replication?

JT

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Jeff Frost <jeff@pgexperts.com> wrote:

It’s a good question, but I’m actually not talking about the WAL files in the archive (those are on S3), I’m talking about the WAL files in the pg_xlog directory.

> On Apr 22, 2015, at 5:00 PM, Jorge Torralba <jorge.torralba@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Stupid question but it needs to be asked.
>
> Do you have this in your recovery.conf file ?
>
> archive_cleanup_command = 'pg_archivecleanup path to archived files %r’

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Thanks,

Jorge Torralba
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