Thanks all. It is finally begining to reuse them.
Any suggestions on what I can look at to see why the checkpoint was so far outstanding and why it hung on in a Zombie state when we tried a soft boot?
On 3/22/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> writes:
> On Mar 22, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Tass Chapman wrote:
>> Checkpoints appear to be up to date (via pg_controldata), but the
>> pg_xlog directory has 95 files, of which 90 are dated before
>> midnight yesterday or earlier.
>>
>> Can I just delete them safely? Or is there some recovery method I
>> can do?
> no, do not delete them. they will eventually be re-used. check back
> in a few days and see how old the various files are...
If there are more than about 2*checkpoint_segments of them, the extras
will be removed by the next successful checkpoint. So there's really no
reason to touch them manually.
regards, tom lane
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