Thread: How to get rid of superfluous WAL segments?

Hi,

we decreased wal_keep_segments quite a lot. What is the supposed way to
get rid of the now superfluous files in pg_xlog?

Thanks,
Torsten

On 06/02/14 06:46, Torsten Förtsch wrote:
> we decreased wal_keep_segments quite a lot. What is the supposed way to
> get rid of the now superfluous files in pg_xlog?

Nothing special. The database did it for me.

Sorry for the noise.

Torsten

On 02/06/2014 06:51 AM, Torsten Förtsch wrote:
> On 06/02/14 06:46, Torsten Förtsch wrote:
>> we decreased wal_keep_segments quite a lot. What is the supposed way to
>> get rid of the now superfluous files in pg_xlog?
> Nothing special. The database did it for me.


It cleans up after a checkpoint.  If you've got a slow server and don't
want to wait for checkpoint_timeout (default 5 minutes), you can issue a
CHECKPOINT command yourself.

Under no circumstances should you ever delete files from pg_xlog by hand.

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Vik