Re: How do you change the size of the WAL files?

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: runner <runner(at)winning(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How do you change the size of the WAL files?
Date: 2011-03-11 18:07:21
Message-ID: AANLkTimk8CUV15dMeEkRMNvy8y2ER2dY0iy7fbq9hSp2@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:58 AM, runner <runner(at)winning(dot)com> wrote:
> We are doing continuous archiving and we have thousands of these 16 Mb
> archive files on disk.
>
> My boss is used to using Oracle where you can set the size of the files.
>
> He'd rather have fewer but larger archive files.

What advantage is there to a fewer number of files?

Have you tried appending the files to an archive?

merlin

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