Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Cc: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Beena Emerson <memissemerson@gmail.com>, tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>, Prabhat Sahu <prabhat.sahu@enterprisedb.com>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-03-24T04:28:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 3/23/17 21:47, Jeff Janes wrote:
> I have a pg_restore which predicts the file 5 files ahead of the one it
> was asked for, and initiates a pre-fetch and decompression of it. Then
> it delivers the file it was asked for, either by pulling it out of the
> pre-staging area set up by the N-5th invocation, or by going directly to
> the archive to get it.  This speeds up play-back dramatically when the
> files are stored compressed and non-local.

Yeah, some better support for prefetching would be necessary to avoid
having to have any knowledge of the file naming.

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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.