Re: increasing the default WAL segment size - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Eduardo Morras
Subject Re: increasing the default WAL segment size
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Msg-id 20160826104506.1e767eee4f86f6bcf26574b5@yahoo.es
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In response to increasing the default WAL segment size  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: increasing the default WAL segment size  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 21:31:35 -0400
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to propose that we increase the default WAL segment size,
> which is currently 16MB.  It was first set to that value in commit
> 47937403676d913c0e740eec6b85113865c6c8ab in October of 1999; prior to
> that, it was 64MB.  Between 1999 and now, there have been three
> significant changes that make me think it might be time to rethink
> this value:
<snip>
> 
> Thoughts?

From my ignorance, could block size affect this WAL size increase?

In past (didn't tried with >9 versions) you can change disk block page size from 8KB to 16 KB or 32KB (or 4) modifing
src/include/pg_config.hBLCKSZ 8192 and recompiling. (There are some mails in 1999-2002 about this topic)
 

> -- 
> Robert Haas
> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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