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 200901091744.n09HiXp18792@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Improving compressibility of WAL files  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> > Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote: 
> >> I thought at one point that the direction this was going toward was to 
> >> provide the size of the WAL file as a parameter you can use in the 
> >> archive_command:
>  
> > Hard to beat for performance.  I thought there was some technical
> > snag.
>  
> Yeah: the archiver process doesn't have that information available.

OK, thanks, I understand now.

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