Re: wal segment size

From: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: wal segment size
Date: 2025-12-17 15:28:00
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM Colin 't Hart <colinthart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I see very little advice on tuning WAL segment size.
>
> One of my clients has a few datawarehouses at around 8 - 16 TB
>
> On one of the nodes there are approx 15000 WAL segments of 16MB each,
> totalling approx 230GB. The archiver is archiving approx one per second, so
> approx 4 hours to clear.
>

One second to archive 16 measly MB seems really darned slow. Another vote
to *that* problem.

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