| From: | "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
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| To: | "Jeff Davis" <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>,"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>,<apoc9009(at)yahoo(dot)de> |
| Subject: | Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup (Maybe OFFTOPIC) |
| Date: | 2007-09-07 00:31:51 |
| Message-ID: | 46E055A7.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov |
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>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2007 at 7:03 PM, in message
<1189123422(dot)9243(dot)29(dot)camel(at)dogma(dot)ljc(dot)laika(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
wrote:
>
> I think ... there's still room for a simple tool that can zero out
> the meaningless data in a partially-used WAL segment before compression.
> It seems reasonable to me, so long as you keep archive_timeout at
> something reasonably high.
>
> If nothing else, people that already have a collection of archived WAL
> segments would then be able to compact them.
That would be a *very* useful tool for us, particularly if it could work
against our existing collection of old WAL files.
-Kevin
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