Re: Simplifying replication

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Simplifying replication
Date: 2010-10-28 05:13:26
Message-ID: 4CC90676.4080503@agliodbs.com
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> I sort of agree with you that the current checkpoint_segments
> parameter is a bit hard to tune, at least if your goal is to control
> the amount of disk space that will be used by WAL files. But I'm not
> sure your proposal is better. Instead of having a complicated formula
> for predicting how much disk space would get used by a given value for
> checkpoint_segments, we'd have a complicated formula for the amount of
> WAL that would force a checkpoint based on max_wal_size.

Yes, but the complicated formula would then be *in our code* instead of
being inflicted on the user, as it now is.

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-- Josh Berkus
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