Re: Improving compressibility of WAL files - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Improving compressibility of WAL files
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Msg-id 200901090036.n090aD529618@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Improving compressibility of WAL files  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Improving compressibility of WAL files  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > The attached patch from Aidan Van Dyk zeros out the end of WAL files to
> > improve their compressibility. (The patch was originally sent to
> > 'general' which explains why it was lost until now.)
> 
> Isn't this redundant given the existence of pglesslog?

It does the same as pglesslog, but is simpler to use because it is
automatic.

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