Re: How do you change the size of the WAL files? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: How do you change the size of the WAL files?
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In response to Re: How do you change the size of the WAL files?  (runner <runner@winning.com>)
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:58 AM, runner <runner@winning.com> wrote:
> We are doing continuous archiving and we have thousands of these 16 Mb
> archive files on disk.
>
> My boss is used to using Oracle where you can set the size of the files.
>
> He'd rather have fewer but larger archive files.

What advantage is there to a fewer number of files?

Have you tried appending the files to an archive?

merlin

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