Restart of Master Postgres DB with unconsumed Wal files

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Published on 2010-04-27T23:30:24Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 23:33 UTC
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We have a situation where walmanager is being used to ship wal files between a master and a slave Postgres database. The slave machine has failed and has had to have been rebuilt. This has caused a lot of unconsumed wal files to build up on the master.

If a reboot is issued to the Postgres master, and there are 24 hours worth of unconsumed wal files hanging around, will the master be effected at all or will it start clean?

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