| From: | John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | pgsql: Document wal_compression=on |
| Date: | 2026-07-01 02:17:02 |
| Message-ID: | E1wekVa-000qkg-11@gemulon.postgresql.org |
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Document wal_compression=on
Commit 4035cd5d4 added LZ4 compression for full-page writes in WAL, and
retained "on" as a backward-compatible way to specify the builtin PGLZ
method. Document this meaning of "on" and update postgresql.conf.sample
to make the equivalence clear.
Author: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/akJDHRtXwGLTppsQ@msg.df7cb.de
Backpatch-through: 15
Branch
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REL_16_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/17cc7f57a405417c72189b27e073a1f71faab372
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 1 +
src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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