Bug ID 2211241: PostgreSQL DB keep growing and filling up /var

Last Modified: Feb 03, 2026

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
17.1.1.4, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1, 17.1.2.2, 17.1.3, 17.1.3.1

Opened: Jan 22, 2026

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

PostgreSQL uses a large amount of disk when AFM is licensed.

Impact

Increase in database file size.

Conditions

AFM Provisioned and pool member is flapping.

Workaround

Follow the procedure to dump/load the database. The dump-load procedure used as follows: 1. pg_dumpall -U postgres |gzip -1v >/shared/tmp/pgdump$(date +%s).gz 2. bigstart stop pgadmind 3. rm -rf /var/local/pgsql/ 4. bigstart start pgadmind 5. sleep 3; while pidof initdb; do sleep 1; done; sleep 3 6. zcat /shared/tmp/pgdump$(date +%s).gz|psql -U postgres template1 7. bigstart restart pgadmind

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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