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Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Beena Emerson <memissemerson@gmail.com>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-01-20T07:34:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 12:49 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Problems 2-4 actually have to do with a DestReceiver of type
>> DestRemote really, really wanting to have an associated Portal and
>> database connection, so one approach is to create a stripped-down
>> DestReceiver that doesn't care about those things and then passing
>> that to GetPGVariable.
>
> I tried that and it worked out pretty well, so I'm inclined to go with
> this approach.  Proposed patches attached.  0001 adds the new
> DestReceiver type, and 0002 is a revised patch to implement the SHOW
> command itself.
>
> Thoughts, comments?

This looks like a sensible approach to me. DestRemoteSimple could be
useful for background workers that are not connected to a database as
well. Isn't there a problem with PGC_REAL parameters?
-- 
Michael

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.