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Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 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: 2017-03-18T00:02:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 3/17/17 16:56, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Tools could get the segment size out of
>> XLogLongPageHeaderData.xlp_seg_size in the first page of the segment.
>
> OK, then pg_standby would have to wait until the file is at least
> XLOG_BLCKSZ, then look inside and get the expected final size.  A bit
> more complicated than now, but seems doable.

Yeah, that doesn't sound too bad.

-- 
Robert Haas
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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.