Re: Improving compressibility of WAL files
От | Simon Riggs |
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Тема | Re: Improving compressibility of WAL files |
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Msg-id | 1231528753.18005.541.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Improving compressibility of WAL files (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>) |
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Re: Improving compressibility of WAL files
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Список | pgsql-hackers |
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 13:22 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes: > > Yes, we could make the archiver do this, but I see no big advantage over > > having it done externally. It's not faster, safer, easier. Not easier > > because we would want a parameter to turn it off when not wanted. > > And the other question to ask is how much effort and code should we be > putting into the concept anyway. AFAICS, file-at-a-time WAL shipping > is a stopgap implementation that will be dead as a doornail once the > current efforts towards realtime replication are finished. There will > still be some use for forced log switches in connection with backups, > but that's not going to occur often enough to be important to optimize. Agreed. Half-filled WAL files were necessary to honour archive_timeout. With continuous streaming all WAL files will be 100% full before we switch, for most purposes. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
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