Re: strange behavior of WAL files - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
Subject Re: strange behavior of WAL files
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Msg-id 20210604125656.47938b0c@firost
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In response to strange behavior of WAL files  (Atul Kumar <akumar14871@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: strange behavior of WAL files
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On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 15:39:30 +0530
Atul Kumar <akumar14871@gmail.com> wrote:

> HI,
> 
> We have a centos 6 enviornment where postgres 9.6 is running on it.
> 
> We have strange behavior of WAL files of pg_xlog directory
> 
> As we have set archive_command to archive WAL files at different
> location and the archive_command is working fine.
> 
> So strange behavior is :
> 
> We have a WAL file say for example "00000001000036CD000000E2" of
> 01.06.2021 (1st June 2021) that is getting archive successfully at the
> archive location and once it is archived, this file with same name
> (00000001000036CD000000E2) is getting generated with the latest
> timestamp (as today is 04.06.2021).and all old WAL files are behaving
> in same manner.

What is you archive_command?

I'm not sure I understand correctly, but keep in mind your
archive_command must be "read only". Do not remove the WAL file after archiving
it.

Regards,



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