| From: | akp geek <akpgeek(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: wal archiving question |
| Date: | 2012-12-05 21:29:29 |
| Message-ID: | CACnhOfLn+UL+gPJ11mrbF0yJ3ZKVjxNuYQ145uQ+t0-d+28mSA@mail.gmail.com |
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thank you all. There is a mistake I did then. I created a base backup when
I started the DB , that was exactly an year ago. I need to do that again
and then delete the old files.
Regards
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> akp geek <akpgeek(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > WAL archives is growing, not the files in pg_xlog.
>
> You need to prune the archives of files that are too old to be
> interesting. This doesn't happen automatically since PG has no
> idea what your archiving requirements are.
>
> Be sure to keep WAL files at least back to the start of your
> last base backup. Some people like to keep them back to the
> next-to-last base backup.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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