Re: Why Wal_buffer is 64KB

From: Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>
To: Tadipathri Raghu <traghu(dot)dba(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why Wal_buffer is 64KB
Date: 2010-03-25 16:05:47
Message-ID: 1269533147.5155.41.camel@bnicholson-desktop
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On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 20:31 +0530, Tadipathri Raghu wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can anybody clarify on this, why wal_buffer is 64kb and what is
> advantages and disadvantages in increasing or decreasing the
> wal_buffer.

This is addressed in the documentation.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/wal-configuration.html

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Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106
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