pg_archivecleanup
pg_archivecleanup — clean up Postgres Pro WAL archive files
Synopsis
pg_archivecleanup
[option
...] archivelocation
oldestkeptwalfile
Description
pg_archivecleanup is designed to be used as an archive_cleanup_command
to clean up WAL file archives when running as a standby server (see Section 25.2). pg_archivecleanup can also be used as a standalone program to clean WAL file archives.
To configure a standby server to use pg_archivecleanup, put this into its postgresql.conf
configuration file:
archive_cleanup_command = 'pg_archivecleanup archivelocation
%r'
where archivelocation
is the directory from which WAL segment files should be removed.
When used within archive_cleanup_command, all WAL files logically preceding the value of the %r
argument will be removed from archivelocation
. This minimizes the number of files that need to be retained, while preserving crash-restart capability. Use of this parameter is appropriate if the archivelocation
is a transient staging area for this particular standby server, but not when the archivelocation
is intended as a long-term WAL archive area, or when multiple standby servers are recovering from the same archive location.
When used as a standalone program all WAL files logically preceding the oldestkeptwalfile
will be removed from archivelocation
. In this mode, if you specify a .partial
or .backup
file name, then only the file prefix will be used as the oldestkeptwalfile
. This treatment of .backup
file name allows you to remove all WAL files archived prior to a specific base backup without error. For example, the following example will remove all files older than WAL file name 000000010000003700000010
:
pg_archivecleanup -d archive 000000010000003700000010.00000020.backup pg_archivecleanup: keep WAL file "archive/000000010000003700000010" and later pg_archivecleanup: removing file "archive/00000001000000370000000F" pg_archivecleanup: removing file "archive/00000001000000370000000E"
pg_archivecleanup assumes that archivelocation
is a directory readable and writable by the server-owning user.
Options
pg_archivecleanup accepts the following command-line arguments:
-b
--clean-backup-history
Remove backup history files as well. See Section 24.3.2 for details about backup history files.
-d
--debug
Print lots of debug logging output on
stderr
.-n
--dry-run
Print the names of the files that would have been removed on
stdout
(performs a dry run).-V
--version
Print the pg_archivecleanup version and exit.
-x
extension
--strip-extension=
extension
Provide an extension that will be stripped from all file names before deciding if they should be deleted. This is typically useful for cleaning up archives that have been compressed during storage, and therefore have had an extension added by the compression program. For example:
-x .gz
.-?
--help
Show help about pg_archivecleanup command line arguments, and exit.
Environment
The environment variable PG_COLOR
specifies whether to use color in diagnostic messages. Possible values are always
, auto
and never
.
Notes
pg_archivecleanup is designed to work with PostgreSQL 8.0 and later when used as a standalone utility, or with PostgreSQL 9.0 and later when used as an archive cleanup command.
pg_archivecleanup is written in C and has an easy-to-modify source code, with specifically designated sections to modify for your own needs
Examples
On Linux or Unix systems, you might use:
archive_cleanup_command = 'pg_archivecleanup -d /mnt/standby/archive %r 2>>cleanup.log'
where the archive directory is physically located on the standby server, so that the archive_command
is accessing it across NFS, but the files are local to the standby. This will:
produce debugging output in
cleanup.log
remove no-longer-needed files from the archive directory