Hi,
On 2023-09-21 22:08:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 6:47 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >> Uh, it is true that we don't have any segment sizes other than WAL, but
> >> I am not sure people would easily know that, so I added WAL so people
> >> knew.
>
> > But the commit in question added a new option that can be used to
> > control the relation segment size -- not the WAL segment size.
> > Obviously, that's what TAKATSUKA-san meant.
>
> Yeah. The release note entry is simply wrong to say it's WAL segment size.
Agreed. Bruce are you committing that bit?
> I would also argue that d3b111e32's installation.sgml changes
> were poorly worded, because they only say "segment size" which can
> easily be misunderstood, just as happened here. Better would be
> "relation segment size" or "table segment size".
Hm. Yea. I copied the language from --with-segsize, but there there's
subsequent sentences that do clarify what the option relates to. I prefer
"relation" over "table" as it affects indexes as well.
Pushed that adjustment.
Greetings,
Andres Freund