Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-08-25T03:24:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> ... but I think this is just folly.  You'd have to do major amounts
> of work to keep, eg, slave servers on the same page as the master
> about what the segment size is.

I said an initdb-time parameter, meaning not capable of being changed
within the lifetime of the cluster.  So I don't see how the slave
servers would get out of sync?

-- 
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.