On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:03:59PM +0200, jes...@krogh.cc wrote: > Hi. > > One of our "production issues" is that the system generates lots of > wal-files, lots is like 151952 files over the last 24h, which is about > 2.4TB worth of WAL files. I wouldn't say that isn't an issue by itself, > but the system does indeed work fine. We do subsequently gzip the files to > limit actual disk-usage, this makes the files roughly 30-50% in size. > > ... > > Suggestions are welcome. An archive-command/restore command that could > combine/split wal-segments might be the easiest workaround, but how about > crash-safeness? >
Hi, Have you considered using something like tar/star in the archive command to pack them into much larger tar archives? Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
