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From Christophe
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In response to Re: Decreasing WAL size effects  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Gregory Stark wrote:
> Wouldn't it be just as good to indicate to the archive command the
> amount of
> real data in the wal file and have it only bother copying up to
> that point?

Hm!  Interesting question: Can the WAL files be truncated, rather
than zeroed, safely?

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