Re: keeping WAL after dropping replication slots - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 04/04/2017 07:45 AM, Tom DalPozzo wrote:

Postgres version?

> Hi,
> I had two replication slots on my primary. Slaves off and (around 800)
> WALs kept as expected.

Slaves off means?:

You replication set up from the master to the slaves(how many?).
Then you disconnected the slaves how?

So the 800 WALs number mean you have wal_keep_segments set to 800?



> I dropped those slots but over time, the system kept on adding new WALs
> without reusing them or deleting them.
> Only after shutdown and restart the system deleted those WAL files.
> Is that ok?
> regards
> Pupillo
>
>


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