Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh(dot)2007(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, 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>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: increasing the default WAL segment size
Date: 2017-04-05 03:59:43
Message-ID: 43771576-af8b-0031-507f-cd6d61a74e44@2ndquadrant.com
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On 4/4/17 22:47, Amit Kapila wrote:
>> Committed first part to allow internal representation change (only).
>>
>> No commitment yet to increasing wal-segsize in the way this patch has it.
>>
>
> What part of patch you don't like and do you have any suggestions to
> improve the same?

I think there are still some questions and disagreements about how it
should behave.

I suggest the next step is to dial up the allowed segment size in
configure and run some tests about what a reasonable maximum value could
be. I did a little bit of that, but somewhere around 256 MB, things got
really slow.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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