On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> rama <rsomaraju@masergy.com> writes:
>> Due to the small file size I see thousands of files being generated and it
>> takes for ever to list thousands of files from archive directory which
>> stores 2 days worth of files. Sizing of WAL logs should be left to the
>> choice of people using the software. Limiting to a very small random 16MB
>> size isn't a good design.
>
> There are tradeoffs in the other direction too, but if you feel you must
> have a different value, see configure's --with-wal-segsize option. Note
> that you cannot change this without re-initdb.
Is there a limit to the max size?