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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Point in Time Recovery
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Msg-id 2763.1090290224@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Point in Time Recovery  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses Re: Point in Time Recovery  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>> 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.  The checkpoint code will then delete or recycle the segment file,
as appropriate.
        regards, tom lane


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