From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com>, tushar <tushar(dot)ahuja(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Prabhat Sahu <prabhat(dot)sahu(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashu(dot)coek88(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: | 2017-03-22 13:19:22 |
Message-ID: | 20170322131922.GA24933@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:49:30PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> To be honest, I'd sort of forgotten about the change which is the
> nominal subject of this thread - I was more focused on the patch,
> which makes it configurable. I was definitely initially in favor of
> raising the value, but I got cold feet, a bit, when Alvaro pointed out
> that going to 64MB would require a substantial increase in
> min_wal_size. I'm not sure people with small installations will
> appreciate seeing that value cranked up from 5 segments * 16MB = 80MB
> to, say, 3 segments * 64MB = 192MB. That's an extra 100+ MB of space
> that doesn't really do anything for you. And nobody's done any
> benchmarking to see whether having only 3 segments is even a workable,
> performant configuration, so maybe we'll end up with 5 * 64MB = 320MB
> by default.
Maybe its time to have a documentation section listing suggested changes
for small installs so we can have more reasonable defaults.
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