Thread: Archiving wal files

Hi list,

somehow it seems that in my pg_xlog directory not all wal files are deleted after copying them to the archive directory
eventhough the archive_status is done for all of them. 
Is it safe to delete them after they were copied or is it safe to use 'mv' as archive_command?

Thanks!

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Christian Rengstl wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> somehow it seems that in my pg_xlog directory not all wal files are
> deleted after copying them to the archive directory even though the
> archive_status is done for all of them.  Is it safe to delete them
> after they were copied or is it safe to use 'mv' as archive_command?

No, it is not safe nor necessary.  Leave them alone -- Postgres will
automatically reuse them as needed.

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