>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
TL> However, that still doesn't explain how you got into the current state.
TL> Had you once had checkpoint_segments set much higher than the current
TL> value of 24? On looking at the code I see that it doesn't make any
TL> attempt to prune future log segments after a decrease in
TL> checkpoint_segments, so if a previous misconfiguration had allowed the
TL> number of future segments to get really large, that could be the root of
TL> the issue.
Wow... that explains it!
I bumped up checkpoint segments to 50 for a restore since it made it
run way faster. In normal operation I don't need that many so I
dropped it back down but it didn't reclaim any space so I figured I
might as well keep it at 50...
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