On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 23:09 +0100, Albert Shih wrote:
> Hi all
>
> How can I clean up the pg_xlog directory ?
>
> I've 710 go of those file.
>
> I've archive_mode on but not in the pg_xlog directory
> I've something like
>
> archive_mode = on # allows archiving to be done
> archive_command = 'cp -i %p /databases/Archives/WAL/%f </dev/null'
>
> so can I just do
>
> postgresql stop
> rm f pg_xlog/*
No.
> postgresql start
>
> Regards.
I strongly suggest using something like walmgr or pitrtools to manage
this. Walmgr is part of skytools, pitrtools can be found here:
https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools
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