Re: PITR: XLog File compression on Archive - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
Subject Re: PITR: XLog File compression on Archive
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Msg-id 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA40184D178@m0114.s-mxs.net
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In response to PITR: XLog File compression on Archive  ("Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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> PS: but something you *could* do in 8.0 is replace "cp" by "gzip" to
> archive compressed files that way.

How about replacing the page image records with a same size dummy record
that only contains a dummy header and all 0's. If the archiver cares about
space he will use some sort of compression anyway.

Andreas


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