Disk full WAL accumulation
Your task
Your primary Postgres just went read-only / started rejecting writes with ERROR: could not extend file ... No space left on device. The data volume is 100% full. It filled fast over the last few hours. The pg_wal directory is enormous, far bigger than usual. You recently spun up a new read replica that's been having trouble staying connected, and there's a logical replication slot feeding a downstream analytics pipeline that's been broken for two days. Triage and mitigate without losing data.
It covers
- Disk full
- Wal accumulation
- Replication slot