WAL disk space

From: Erin Munro <emunro(at)ll(dot)mit(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: WAL disk space
Date: 2002-12-09 16:05:18
Message-ID: 3DF4BF3E.8090501@ll.mit.edu
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An empty database cluster takes up 20 MB, 16 of which
are dedicated to a WAL file. This seems to be a lot
for a small or low-traffic database. Is there any way
to reduce the size of this WAL file, besides reverting
to version 7.0 (where WAL isn't used)?
Thanks -Erin

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