hi,
(on postgres 9.6) I was just practicing to make my no. of wal files in
pg_xlog directory to be the same/equal as I pass on wal_keep_segments
paramater.
say for example
show wal_keep_segments;
wal_keep_segments
-------------------
125
so I want my wal files should not be grow in numbers more than 125 so
for that I have changed the parameter of max_wal_size to 2 GB to limit
the size of pg_xlog directory.
show max_wal_size;
max_wal_size
--------------
2GB
(1 row)
but I did some testing by bulk inserts then the number of wal files
has grown more than 125.
and the size of pg_xlog directory also reached to 2.7 GB.
/data/apps/edb/as96/data/pg_xlog 04:05:08]$ ls | wc -l
173
/data/apps/edb/as96/data 04:05:11]$ du -sh pg_xlog/
2.7G pg_xlog/
I wonder why I faced such behavior bcz I limited the size of pg_xlog
directory by setting max_wal_size to 2GB that should be equivalent to
around 125 number of wal file in the pg_xlog directory.
please suggest how should I make both identical (wal_keep_segments and
max_wal_size).
regards,
Atul
