Re: pg_wal directory max size - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: pg_wal directory max size
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Msg-id D3B925FC-564F-4972-836B-55601CF36982@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to pg_wal directory max size  (Yi Sun <yinan81@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 22 December 2022 04:00:57 CET, Yi Sun <yinan81@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello guys,
>
>We are planning the server disk space, pg_wal directory max size is wal
>file size*wal_keep_segments? or is it also decided by other parameters
>please? We tried to search for this, but could not find the answer
>
>For example our postgresql is 9.6 below parameters value, is the pg_wal
>directory max size 320*16MB please? Thank you
>wal file size 16MB
>wal_keep_segments = 320
>min_wal_size = 1GB
>max_wal_size = 2GB
>
>Best Regards
>Dennis

No, you need space to store all wal's between 2 checkpoints. So it depends more on the checkpoint parameters and your
workload.Plus wal_keep_segments... 
9.6 is out of support.

Andreas



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