Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg(at)yahoo(dot)es>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: increasing the default WAL segment size
Date: 2016-08-28 14:08:34
Message-ID: CA+Tgmobn8A2xo_-jRK_zpqdU-+5tXN+j+pkbJ-TAe9ih=271CA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:45 AM, Eduardo Morras <emorrasg(at)yahoo(dot)es> wrote:
> From my ignorance, could block size affect this WAL size increase?
>
> In past (didn't tried with >9 versions) you can change disk block page size from 8KB to 16 KB or 32KB (or 4) modifing src/include/pg_config.h BLCKSZ 8192 and recompiling. (There are some mails in 1999-2002 about this topic)

Yeah, I think that's still supposed to work although I don't know
whether anyone has tried it lately. It is a separate topic from this
issue, though.

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Robert Haas
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