Re: Database size stays constant but disk space keeps shrinking -- postgres 9.1 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Greg Williamson
Subject Re: Database size stays constant but disk space keeps shrinking -- postgres 9.1
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Msg-id 1350510977.4726.YahooMailNeo@web125906.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Database size stays constant but disk space keeps shrinking -- postgres 9.1  (Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>)
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fantastic !
thanks.
greg


From: Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39@yahoo.com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Database size stays constant but disk space keeps shrinking -- postgres 9.1

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Indeed -- stopping repmgr has lef to a continued accumulation of the dead but not gone file handles, but almost all are now owned by the application, with only a few held by WAL shipping and the like. So repmgr was just getting the blame, unfairly.
>
> Am working on the code itself now.
>

Just in case, it seems like
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2012-10/msg00194.php
is a fix to your problem. It was commited a few minutes ago by Tom
Lane so you can patch your instalation or wait until the next
postgresql minor version to be released

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