Re: pg_wal folder high disk usage

Hi,

You might wanna check if archive backups(id enabled) are happening and/or
if there is replication lag or replication broken if you have replicas.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 11:36 AM Paul Brindusa <paulbrindusa88@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> On one of our postgres instances we have the pg_wal/data folder up to
> 196GB, out of 200GB disk filled up.
> This has stopped the posgresql.service this morning causing two
> applications to crash.
> Unfortunately our database admin is on leave today, and we are trying to
> figure out how to get the disk down?
> Any ideas or suggestions are more than welcome.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Paul Brindusa
> paulbrindusa88@gmail.com
>
>