Here's an idea and a patch for full page writes improvement.

Idea:
(1) keep full page writes for ordinary WAL, make them available during
the crash recovery, -> recovery from inconsistent pages which can be
made at the crash,
(2) Remove them from the archive log except for those written during
online backup (between pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup) -> small size
archive log.

Implementation:
(1) Mark WAL record whose full-page-writes can be removed,
(2) Remove full-page writes from the marked WAL record in archive
command, and
(3) Restore the removed full-page writes to make LSN consistent.

Included is a patch for this as well as archive and restore command source.

Patch is very small and I hope this to be included in 8.3.

-- 
Koichi Suzuki

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• Re: Full page writes improvement at 2007-02-01 19:59:07 from Tom Lane

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