Please avoid top-posting... On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Oliver <ofab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, thanks. > I mean by original wal segments to files generated in pg_xlog, yes. I have > to 0 the parameter wal_keep_segments. They are being generated with 16MB of > size and they are being rotated. What parameter controls how many files can > be generated? Or will it grow indefinitely? > checkpoint_segments. A maximum of (3 * checkpoint_segments + 1) WAL segments can generated. This can be more though as this is a soft limit, but once this limit is reached server will remove WAL segments instead of keeping them. Per the docs: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/wal-configuration.html -- Michael
