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Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-08-25T18:49:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:

> > The one thing I'd be worried about with the increase in size is folks
> > using PostgreSQL for very small databases.  If your database is only
> > 30MB or so in size, the increase in size of the WAL will be pretty
> > significant (+144MB for the base 3 WAL segments).  I'm not sure this is
> > a real problem which users will notice (in today's scales, 144MB ain't
> > much), but if it turns out to be, it would be nice to have a way to
> > switch it back *just for them* without recompiling.
> 
> I think you may be forgetting that "the base 3 WAL segments" is no
> longer the default configuration.  checkpoint_segments=3 is history;
> we now have max_wal_size=1GB, which is a maximum of 64 WAL segments,
> not 3.

I think the relevant one for that case is the minimum, though:

#min_wal_size = 80MB

which corresponds to 5 segments.  I suppose the default value for this
minimum would change to some multiple of 64MB.

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  1. Make WAL segment size configurable at initdb time.

  2. Perform only one ReadControlFile() during startup.

  3. Introduce BYTES unit for GUCs.

  4. Remove useless duplicate inclusions of system header files.

  5. Refactor other replication commands to use DestRemoteSimple.

  6. Add a SHOW command to the replication command language.

  7. Add a new DestReceiver for printing tuples without catalog access.

  8. Support fls().

  9. Extend yesterday's patch making BLCKSZ and RELSEG_SIZE configurable to also

  10. Commit the reasonably uncontroversial parts of J.R. Nield's PITR patch, to

  11. XLOG (also known as WAL -:)) Bootstrap/Startup/Shutdown.

  12. Transaction log manager core code.