Re: WAL segments size

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:14:24PM -0300, Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote:
> I was looking for a parameter on postgresql.conf to increase the WAL
> segments size, but according to documentation this can only be changed while
> building PostgreSQL.

You mean this:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/runtime-config-wal.html#GUC-CHECKPOINT-SEGMENTS

?

That doesn't say you have to set it at compile time. You can't change it
without _restarting_ Postgres. That's because it's something that has to be
initialized at start up.

A

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