On Wed, 2025-12-17 at 16:13 +0100, Colin 't Hart wrote:
> I see very little advice on tuning WAL segment size.
>
> One of my clients has a few datawarehouses at around 8 - 16 TB
>
> On one of the nodes there are approx 15000 WAL segments of 16MB each, totalling
> approx 230GB. The archiver is archiving approx one per second, so approx 4 hours to clear.
>
> Would we gain anything by bumping the WAL segment size?
Very likely yes, if the problem is the overhead of starting the archive_command.
Another thing that can slow down archiving is if you compress these segments
too aggressively.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
