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Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, 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: 2017-03-25T15:38:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 3/24/17 08:18, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> * Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
>> There is a function for that.
> [...]
>> There is not a function for that, but there could be one.
> 
> I'm not sure you've really considered what you're suggesting here.

Create a set-returning function that returns all the to-be-expected file
names between two LSNs.

> Beyond that, this also bakes in an assumption that we would then require
> access to a database

That is a good point, but then any change to the naming whatsoever will
create trouble.  Then we might as well choose which specific trouble.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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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.