From: | "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum" <adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Core team statement on replication in PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2008-05-31 03:39:14 |
Message-ID: | 65937bea0805302039n30083771r7598f20d1b4d448c@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2008, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
>
> Not if you use pg_clearxlogtail
>>>
>>
>> This means we need to modify pg_standby to not check for filesize when
>> reading XLogs.
>>
>
> No, the idea is that you run the segments through pg_clearxlogtail | gzip,
> which then compresses lightly used segments massively because all the unused
> bytes are 0. File comes out the same size at the other side, but you didn't
> ship a full 16MB if there was only a few KB used.
Got it. I remember reading about pg_clearxlogtail in these mailing lists;
but somehow forgot how it actually worked!
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