From: | Jason Long <mailing(dot)list(at)supernovasoftware(dot)com> |
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To: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kyle Cordes <kyle(at)kylecordes(dot)com>, pgsql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Decreasing WAL size effects |
Date: | 2008-10-31 01:29:24 |
Message-ID: | 490A5F74.4060509@supernovasoftware.com |
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Greg Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> The real reason not to put that functionality into core (or even
>> contrib) is that it's a stopgap kluge. What the people who want this
>> functionality *really* want is continuous (streaming) log-shipping, not
>> WAL-segment-at-a-time shipping.
>
> Sure, and that's why I didn't care when this got kicked out of the
> March CommitFest; was hoping a better one would show up. But if 8.4
> isn't going out the door with the feature people really want, it would
> be nice to at least make the stopgap kludge more easily available.
+1
Sure I would rather have synchronous WAL shipping, but if that is going
to be a while or synchronous would slow down my applicaton I can get
comfortably close enough for my purposes with some highly compressible WALs.
>
> --
> * Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
>
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