"Stein, Jochen" <J.Stein@secunet.de> writes:
> I just set up a little test database and i asked myself why this
> pg_xlog-directory has already 33MBs and is still growing.
Because the xlog is allocated in units of 16Mb. If you're talking
about a low-traffic database, the xlog probably won't get larger than a
couple of files. (You can tweak the WAL configuration parameters to
determine this, see the Admin Guide.)
regards, tom lane