is the archive command even needed? I can see my standby fully synced.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 5:27 AM Guillaume Lelarge <guilla...@lelarge.info>
wrote:

> Le jeu. 13 oct. 2022 à 12:42, Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> The primary's recovery.conf looks like this
>>
>> listen_address='*'
>> wal_level=replica
>> synchronous_commit=local
>> archive_move = on
>> archive_command = 'cp %p /var/lib/pgsql/11/data/archive/%f'
>> max_wal_senders = 10
>> wal_keep_segments=10
>> synchronous_standby_names='standby0'
>> wal_log_hints=on
>>
>>
> The archive command stores the WAL in a local directory. That's what I
> said earlier.
>
>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 8:45 AM Guillaume Lelarge <guilla...@lelarge.info>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Le dim. 9 oct. 2022 à 13:54, Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I have primary and standby replication setup.
>>>>
>>>> On my primary the archive directory is rather large (30GB) and growing.
>>>> On my standby I have recovery.conf which has
>>>> archive_cleanup_command = 'pg_archivecleanup -d
>>>> /var/lib/pgsql/11/data/archive %r'
>>>>
>>>> I was under the impression this line would remove data from my primary
>>>> AND standby. Is that not the case?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> pg_archivecleanup will clean up the *local* directory. It won't clean up
>>> the archive directory if it's stored on the primary.
>>>
>>> If I misunderstood your issue, it would be great to send us the
>>> postgresql.conf file from your primary.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Guillaume.
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>
>
> --
> Guillaume.
>


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