| From: | Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PGSQL Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Dynamically-sized WAL files |
| Date: | 2009-11-11 09:27:43 |
| Message-ID: | bddc86150911110127p1850dd7n41fa65e3c38dcac@mail.gmail.com |
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2009/11/10 Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:39 +0000, Thom Brown wrote:
>
>> Is there a reason we require fixed-size WAL files?
>
> Currently we reuse the files, which is much easier with fixed size
> files.
>
> It might have been interesting once to pass the size at log switch
> through to the archiver as a parameter, though we didn't do that at the
> time. Streaming is the way forwards, not file-by-file.
>
I see! Yes, streaming is far more preferrable. :)
Thanks Simon.
Thom Brown
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