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Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

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

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, 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: 2017-03-22T19:39:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 3/22/17 15:37, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> If changing WAL sizes catches on, I do think we should keep thinking
> about a new format for a future release,

I think that means that I'm skeptical about changing the default size
right now.

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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.