Re: Removing archived wal files on Master - Mailing list pgsql-admin

can you please see the latest time stamp of the WAl archives as archive_mode is off now, i am suspecting these are the old archive files.

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Vikas Gupta PMP
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 4:49 PM Michael King <michaelbking@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi, 

I recently acquired a legacy server. This is running Postgresql 9.3 on Ubuntu 16.04. 

There is around 200GB worth of archived wal files (~12,500 files)  located on /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/archive. 

I have checked and can confirm that this is a standalone server without any Replication setup and no secondary/slave server talking to it.

Checking the /etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf file (write ahead log section), shows the following:

wal_level = minimal

archive_mode = off

archive_command = 'test ! -f /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/archive/%f && cp -i %p /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/archive/%f </dev/null'

Replication section shows all default values.

Could you please advice how I can cleanup all of these 200GB worth of files.

I've searched through numerous postgresql books/blogs/articles which all have very good advise on how to setup wal archiving but unfortunately not on how to disable it.

Kind regards,

Michael