Re: WAL disk space - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: WAL disk space
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Msg-id 20021209083146.H61169-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to WAL disk space  (Erin Munro <emunro@ll.mit.edu>)
List pgsql-admin
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Erin Munro wrote:

> An empty database cluster takes up 20 MB, 16 of which
> are dedicated to a WAL file. This seems to be a lot
> for a small or low-traffic database. Is there any way
> to reduce the size of this WAL file, besides reverting
> to version 7.0 (where WAL isn't used)?

IIRC, you can change the segment size at compile time in
xlog.h.


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