Re: Is full_page_writes=off safe in conjunction with

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 01:31:58PM +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > (No, I don't think tar's blocksize options control this
> > necessarily --- those indicate the blocking factor on the *tape*.
> > And not everyone uses tar anyway.)
>
> If I'm desperate enough to get the 2x reduction of WAL writes, I may
> even write my own backup solution.

I must be missing something obvious, but why don't we compress the
xlogs? They appear to be quite compressable (>75%) with standard gzip...
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