Hello John,
Those are Write Ahead Log file segments and are part of PostgreSQL's
REDO mechanism.
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:06 AM, jjurban <jjurban@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using PostGreSQL on eComStation (nee OS/2).
>
> My system is generating enormous log files in a folder called pg_xlog. They
> are 16MB each and there are many, many of them.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. Can I delete them and still continue to run?
>
> 2. How do I turn off the generation of these files?
>
> Thank you all very much.
>
> John
>
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