On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/18/2013 12:15 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>>
>> A possibly related question:
>>
>> I've set wal_keep_segments to 10,000 and also have archive_command
>> running wal-e. I'm seeing my wal files disappear from pg_xlog after 30
>> minutes. Is that expected? Is there a way around that?
>
>
> Well a WAL segment is 16MB in size so that should give you a basis for
> determining whether the above is appropriate, my guess it is not. I do not
> know enough about Wal-e, but my guess is it is siphoning off WAL segments
> before you want it to.
Don't some operations like forced checkpoints etc skip to the next WAL
resulting in them not necessarily being "full"?
