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Re: PITR: XLog File compression on Archive

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, <mendola@bigfoot.com>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-08-24T07:28:47Z
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> Bruce Momjian...
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Anyway I think we are way past feature freeze, and XLog "compression"
> > could made it into 8.1 without loss of functionality.  At that point we
> > will say "now PITR uses less space on the archiver" and that's it.
> >
> > (Maybe we could even think about LZ-compressing the remaining WAL
> > entries on the archived logs?)
>
> Agreed.  I added a mention of it in the TODO list:
>

> Tom Lane...
> I have zero interest in touching this problem for 8.0 ...

OK, thats unanimously out for 8.0.

Yes, you can compress stuff with a tool - though its even easier if the data
isn't there in the first place.

Thanks for the quick replies - saved me some time.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs