Re: pg_archivecleanup not deleting anything? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: pg_archivecleanup not deleting anything?
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Msg-id 56379045.4090106@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: pg_archivecleanup not deleting anything?  (Paul Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>)
Responses Re: pg_archivecleanup not deleting anything?  (Paul Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>)
Re: pg_archivecleanup not deleting anything?  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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On 11/02/2015 08:17 AM, Paul Jungwirth wrote:
>> Is there anything else beside *.backup files in the directory?
>
> There were a few *.history files, and a few files with no extension,
> like this: 00000006000000BE00000040.

So, as Albe posted pg_archivecleanup is only cleaning up the WAL files,
not the auxiliary files. The WAL files would be the ones with no
extension and a size of 16 MB(unless someone changed the compile settings).

>
> Paul
>


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