Re: Point in Time Recovery - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Point in Time Recovery
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Msg-id 200407200222.i6K2MoS01269@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Point in Time Recovery  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > If you keep falling further and further behind, eventually your pg_xlog
> > directory will fill the space available on its disk, and I think at that
> > point PG will panic and shut down because it can't create any more xlog
> > segments.
> 
> Hang on, are you supposed to MOVE or COPY away WAL segments?

Copy.  pg will delete them once they are archived.

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