# Consider increasing the configuration parameter "max\_wal\_size"

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/consider-increasing-the-configuration-parameter-max-wal-size/47049>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Juillet 10, 2016, 4:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consider-increasing-the-configuration-parameter-max-wal-size/47049 "2016-07-10T04:10:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [Juillet 12, 2016, 9:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/consider-increasing-the-configuration-parameter-max-wal-size/47049/3 "2016-07-12T21:08:50Z")

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Were you out of disk space? The `wal` stuff has to do with postgres streaming its real time log of database changes to disk.

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