Re: Dynamically-sized WAL files - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: Dynamically-sized WAL files
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Msg-id bddc86150911110127p1850dd7n41fa65e3c38dcac@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Dynamically-sized WAL files  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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2009/11/10 Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:39 +0000, Thom Brown wrote:
>
>> Is there a reason we require fixed-size WAL files?
>
> Currently we reuse the files, which is much easier with fixed size
> files.
>
> It might have been interesting once to pass the size at log switch
> through to the archiver as a parameter, though we didn't do that at the
> time. Streaming is the way forwards, not file-by-file.
>

I see!  Yes, streaming is far more preferrable. :)

Thanks Simon.

Thom Brown

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