Hi there, I found in the data directory, there many translog files like *.tlog or *.ckp have been existing for few days. According to the document, there's a retention setting with default 12 hours. But I'm using 7.5 version and this setting is deprecated. How can I have those translog files comm…

Translog files are cleaned up when they're no longer necessary, typically on a flush as long as the flush has other work to do. However the version you're using has a bug which creates empty translog files on a restart; these empty translog files will be cleaned up on the first nontrivial flush, but…

BTW, those translog files seems empty because file size is only few bytes.

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CHU_XU (CHU XU) March 22, 2021, 8:02am 4

Thanks David.

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When will translog file be deleted from disk?

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