Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: 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: 2017-03-21T02:54:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:23 PM, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
> With 16MB WAL segments the filename neatly aligns with the LSN.  For
> example:
>
> WAL FILE 0000000100000001000000FE = LSN 1/FE000000
>
> This no longer holds true with this patch.

It is already possible to change the WAL segment size using the
configure option --with-wal-segsize, and I think the patch should be
consistent with whatever that existing option does.

-- 
Robert Haas
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Commits

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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.