Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>

From: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>
Cc: Beena Emerson <memissemerson@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-02-28T04:50:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:
> On 2/24/17 6:30 AM, Kuntal Ghosh wrote:
>>
>> * You're considering any WAL file with a power of 2 as valid. Suppose,
>> the correct WAL seg size is 64mb. For some reason, the server
>> generated a 16mb invalid WAL file(maybe it crashed while creating the
>> WAL file). Your code seems to treat this as a valid file which I think
>> is incorrect. Do you agree with that?
>
>
> Detecting correct WAL size based on the size of a random WAL file seems like
> a really bad idea to me.
+1



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Thanks & Regards,
Kuntal Ghosh
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com


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.