Re: Recycle The Wal logs - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Recycle The Wal logs
Date
Msg-id 1827.1063806947@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Recycle The Wal logs  (Vasilis Ventirozos <vendi@cosmoline.com>)
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Vasilis Ventirozos <vendi@cosmoline.com> writes:
> I have some Gigs of useless transaction logs from databases that i have
> created-droped etc..
> can i recycle the logs or i have to run initdb again ?

They're supposed to be recycled automatically during checkpoints.  What
PG version are you using?  Do you have any nonstandard settings in
postgresql.conf?  Also, use "ps auxww" (or "ps -ef" depending on your
platform) to look and see if the postmaster has a child "checkpoint"
process that's not doing anything ...

            regards, tom lane

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