Re: AdvanceXLInsertBuffer vs. WAL segment compressibility

On 07/25/16 22:09, Michael Paquier wrote:

> This is over-complicating things for little gain. The new behavior of
> filling in with zeros the tail of a segment makes things far better
> when using gzip in archive_command.

Then how about filling with actual zeros, instead of with mostly-zeros
as is currently done?  That would work just as well for gzip, and would
not sacrifice the ability to do 100x better than gzip.

-Chap