Reducing excess files in pg_xlog - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thom Brown
Subject Reducing excess files in pg_xlog
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Msg-id bddc86151003220715k1e5b6560xdbe618502cad3276@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Reducing excess files in pg_xlog  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Reducing excess files in pg_xlog  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Hi,

I noticed there's 66 files in my pg_xlog directory.  I changed my checkpoint_segments from 32 to 3 as I noticed it was too high, restarted PosgreSQL, but there are still 66 files in that directory and they're taking up about 1.1G.

How can I get this list of files down?

Thanks

Thom

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