Re: BUG #10013: PostgreSQL 9.4 initdb FATAL: could not write to file "pg_xlog/xlogtemp.3590": No space left on devi - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On 2014-04-16 19:31:33 +0800, =E5=BE=B7=E5=93=A5 wrote:
> CONFIGURE =3D '... '--with-wal-blocksize=3D64' '--with-blocksize=3D32' =
...'

Independent of problems around this that probably should be fixed, I
think it's a pretty bad idea to use such a large wal blocksize. That'll
cause a fair amount of write amplification at commits and such.
It might work out well if you only doing bulk loading, but still..

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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