| From: | "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PITR: XLog File compression on Archive |
| Date: | 2004-08-24 07:28:47 |
| Message-ID: | NOEFLCFHBPDAFHEIPGBOEEDECDAA.simon@2ndquadrant.com |
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> Bruce Momjian...
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Anyway I think we are way past feature freeze, and XLog "compression"
> > could made it into 8.1 without loss of functionality. At that point we
> > will say "now PITR uses less space on the archiver" and that's it.
> >
> > (Maybe we could even think about LZ-compressing the remaining WAL
> > entries on the archived logs?)
>
> Agreed. I added a mention of it in the TODO list:
>
> Tom Lane...
> I have zero interest in touching this problem for 8.0 ...
OK, thats unanimously out for 8.0.
Yes, you can compress stuff with a tool - though its even easier if the data
isn't there in the first place.
Thanks for the quick replies - saved me some time.
Best Regards, Simon Riggs
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