pg_basebackup && long time storage of wal_archive/ content - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Matthias Apitz
Subject pg_basebackup && long time storage of wal_archive/ content
Date
Msg-id 20200414150022.GA4613@sh4-5.1blu.de
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Responses Re: pg_basebackup && long time storage of wal_archive/ content
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Hello,

The run (as user 'postgres') on the server of the cmd:

pg_basebackup -U ${DBSUSER} -Ft -z -D /data/postgresql11/backup-wal_archive-20200414-1/

produces correctly the following situtation on the server:

srap32dxr1:/data/postgresql11 # ls -ltrh backup-20200414-1
total 1.7G
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.7G Apr 14 16:20 base.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres  17K Apr 14 16:20 pg_wal.tar.gz
srap32dxr1:/data/postgresql11 # ls -ltrh data/pg_wal
total 81M
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16M Apr 14 15:11 000000010000000C0000009F
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16M Apr 14 15:20 000000010000000C000000A0
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16M Apr 14 16:10 000000010000000C000000A1
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16M Apr 14 16:20 000000010000000C000000A2
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 342 Apr 14 16:20 000000010000000C0000009D.00000028.backup
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 36K Apr 14 16:25 archive_status
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16M Apr 14 16:50 000000010000000C0000009E
srap32dxr1:/data/postgresql11 # ls -ltrh wal_archive/
total 49M
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16M Apr 14 15:20 000000010000000C0000009B
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16M Apr 14 16:10 000000010000000C0000009C
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16M Apr 14 16:20 000000010000000C0000009D
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 342 Apr 14 16:20 000000010000000C0000009D.00000028.backup

The content of the dir wal_archive/ is growing and growing over the
time.

The pg_wat.tar.gz contains:

srap32dxr1:/data/postgresql11 # tar tzf backup-20200414-1/pg_wal.tar.gz
000000010000000C0000009D

i..e. the files 000000010000000C0000009B ... 000000010000000C0000009D
could be removed in wal_archive/ 

Correct? Or how is the long time storage of this dir?

    matthias

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