On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Niels Kristian Schjødt
<nielskrist...@autouncle.com> wrote:
> After installing my new server I just discovered something that doesn't seem 
> right:
>
> sudo du -h /var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main

<snip>

> As you can see the pg_xlog folder is 202G, which is more than my entire 
> database - this seems wrong to me, however I have no clue why this would 
> happen.

My first guess would be that your archive_command is failing - so
check your logs for that. If that command fails, no xlog files will
ever be rotated (since it would invalidate your backups).

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