| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com>, tushar <tushar(dot)ahuja(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Prabhat Sahu <prabhat(dot)sahu(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: increasing the default WAL segment size |
| Date: | 2017-03-21 13:04:09 |
| Message-ID: | 20170321130409.GL9812@tamriel.snowman.net |
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Robert,
* Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:23 PM, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> wrote:
> > With 16MB WAL segments the filename neatly aligns with the LSN. For
> > example:
> >
> > WAL FILE 0000000100000001000000FE = LSN 1/FE000000
> >
> > This no longer holds true with this patch.
>
> It is already possible to change the WAL segment size using the
> configure option --with-wal-segsize, and I think the patch should be
> consistent with whatever that existing option does.
Considering how little usage that option has likely seen (I can't say
I've ever run into usage of it so far...), I'm not really sure that it
makes sense to treat it as final when we're talking about changing the
default here.
In short, I'm also concerned about this change to make WAL file names no
longer match up with LSNs and also about the odd stepping that you get
as a result of this change when it comes to WAL file names.
Thanks!
Stephen
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