Re: Hard limit on WAL space used (because PANIC sucks) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Hard limit on WAL space used (because PANIC sucks)
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Msg-id 25149.1370624382@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Hard limit on WAL space used (because PANIC sucks)  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
> On 07.06.2013 19:33, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Not only is that a horrible layering/modularity violation, but surely
>> LockBuffer can have no idea how much WAL space will be needed.

> It can be just a conservative guess, like, 32KB. That should be enough 
> for almost all WAL-logged operations. The only exception that comes to 
> mind is a commit record, which can be arbitrarily large, when you have a 
> lot of subtransactions or dropped/created relations.

What happens when several updates are occurring concurrently?
        regards, tom lane



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