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PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook
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PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, Sudheer Kumar Meesala, Sheldon Strauch
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
20h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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It's possible for a problem to be caused by replaying the transaction log so that the database server will fail to start.

Some people's response to this is to use a utility named pg_resetwal, which removes the current transaction log files and tidies up after that operation has taken place.

The pg_resetwal utility destroys data changes and that means data loss. If you do decide to run that utility, make sure that you take a backup of the pg_wal directory first. Our advice is to seek immediate assistance rather than do this. You don't know for certain that doing this will fix a problem though, once you've done it, you will have difficulty going back.

When discussing min_wal_size, we mentioned that WAL files are recycled; what ...

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ISBN: 9781789537581