Re: Postgresql went crazy and flooded all the SSD - Mailing list pgsql-general

From hubert depesz lubaczewski
Subject Re: Postgresql went crazy and flooded all the SSD
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Msg-id ZUjhz+qqF9pxJPX6@depesz.com
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In response to Postgresql went crazy and flooded all the SSD  (Gabriel Dodan <gabriel.dodan@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 01:11:31PM +0200, Gabriel Dodan wrote:
> Not sure exactly what happened but Postgresql flooded all the available SSD
> space and obviously crashed. It has written a lot of data in the pg_wal
> folder. Most likely it was caused by replication. The postgresql instance
> that crashed was a subscriber and publisher at the same time. Even so, it
> was not a heavy write replication, I mean the data that needed to be
> replicated was rarely updated. Has anyone else encountered such an issue?

You might want to read https://www.depesz.com/2023/06/18/why-is-my-wal-directory-so-large/

Best regards,

depesz




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