Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: 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: 2017-02-28 04:15:32
Message-ID: ed647eac-d911-c2cb-5ba0-ae3a25b90f4f@BlueTreble.com
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On 2/24/17 6:30 AM, Kuntal Ghosh wrote:
> * You're considering any WAL file with a power of 2 as valid. Suppose,
> the correct WAL seg size is 64mb. For some reason, the server
> generated a 16mb invalid WAL file(maybe it crashed while creating the
> WAL file). Your code seems to treat this as a valid file which I think
> is incorrect. Do you agree with that?

Detecting correct WAL size based on the size of a random WAL file seems
like a really bad idea to me.

I also don't see the reason for #2... or is that how initdb writes out
the correct control file?
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