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Re: Lowering the default wal_blocksize to 4K

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-10-09T23:36:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2023-10-09 19:26:54 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Oct  9, 2023 at 04:08:05PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > There's an alternative approach we could take, which is to write in 4KB
> > increments, while keeping 8KB pages. With the current format that's not
> > obviously a bad idea. But given there aren't really advantages in 8KB WAL
> > pages, it seems we should just go for 4KB?
> 
> How do we handle shorter maximum row lengths and shorter maximum index
> entry lengths?

The WAL blocksize shouldn't influence either, unless we have a bug somewhere.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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