From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Charles Duffy <charles(at)dyfis(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Making pg_standby compression-friendly |
Date: | 2008-10-23 06:15:39 |
Message-ID: | 4900168B.5020101@enterprisedb.com |
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Charles Duffy wrote:
> I'm interested in compressing archived WAL segments in an environment
> set up for PITR in the interests of reducing both network traffic and
> storage requirements. However, pg_standby presently checks file sizes,
> requiring that an archive segment be exactly the right size to be
> considered valid. The idea of compressing log segments is not new --
> the clearxlogtail project in pgfoundry provides a tool to make such
> compression more effective, and is explicitly intended for said
> purpose -- but as of 8.3.4, pg_standby appears not to support such
> environments; I propose adding such support.
Can't you decompress the files in whatever script you use to copy them
to the archive location?
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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