Re: [GENERAL] Removing files under pg_clog

2010-04-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Steven Harms escribi?: I don't have stats on how big they were getting, but they are running this every night, which I suspect causes issues (and I suspect the reason their logs were getting big is because they programmed a bunch of locked transactions): find

[GENERAL] Removing files under pg_clog

2010-04-08 Thread Steven Harms
I ran into a script today that was removing files under /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog today because they were too large (Postgresql 7.4). My initial thought was this could cause data loss or corruption, can someone provide insight as to if that is correct? Thanks, Steve -- GPG Key ID: C92EF367

Re: [GENERAL] Removing files under pg_clog

2010-04-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Steven Harms escribió: I ran into a script today that was removing files under /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog today because they were too large (Postgresql 7.4). My initial thought was this could cause data loss or corruption, can someone provide insight as to if that is correct? Yeah. How

Re: [GENERAL] Removing files under pg_clog

2010-04-08 Thread Steven Harms
I don't have stats on how big they were getting, but they are running this every night, which I suspect causes issues (and I suspect the reason their logs were getting big is because they programmed a bunch of locked transactions): find /pgsql/data/pg_xlog -type f -mtime +1 | xargs rm -f find

Re: [GENERAL] Removing files under pg_clog

2010-04-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Steven Harms escribió: I don't have stats on how big they were getting, but they are running this every night, which I suspect causes issues (and I suspect the reason their logs were getting big is because they programmed a bunch of locked transactions): find /pgsql/data/pg_xlog -type f