2013/2/14 Tory M Blue <tmb...@gmail.com> > My postgres db ran out of space. I have 27028 files in the pg_xlog > directory. I'm unclear what happened this has been running flawless for > years. I do have archiving turned on and run an archive command every 10 > minutes. > > I'm not sure how to go about cleaning this up, I got the DB back up, but > I've only got 6gb free on this drive and it's going to blow up, if I can't > relieve some of the stress from this directory over 220gb. > > What are my options? > > Thanks > > Postgres 9.1.6 > slon 2.1.2
I can't give any advice right now, but I'd suggest posting more details of your setup, including as much of your postgresql.conf file as possible (especially the checkpoint_* and archive_* settings) and also the output of pg_controldata. Ian Barwick
