Excerpts from Fujii Masao's message of mié mar 02 22:44:45 -0300 2011: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> > wrote: > > I noticed that in standalone mode, WAL segments don't seem to be > > recycled. This could get problematic if you're forced to vacuum large > > tables in that mode and space for WAL is short. > > Checkpoint is required to recycle old WAL segments. Can checkpoint > be executed in standalone mode? even during VACUUM FULL?
Hmm, I guess it would violate POLA that the standalone server would decide to run checkpoint in the middle of vacuum. I imagine that in some cases the only option would be to process the tables manually, with the ALTER TABLE/SET TYPE trick or similar (VACUUM FULL in 9.0+). So I can see that there is no good fix for this problem, yet it is a very inconvenient situation to be in. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
