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From Thom Brown
Subject Re: Reducing excess files in pg_xlog
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Msg-id bddc86151003220721n5b05b65ax4ac554758087b3c0@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Reducing excess files in pg_xlog  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Reducing excess files in pg_xlog  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 22 March 2010 14:19, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> writes:
> 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?

Force a checkpoint, if one hasn't happened already.

                       regards, tom lane

Hi Tom,

Yeah, I've run a CHECKPOINT too, but no joy.  Still the same number of files.

Thom

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