On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> So right now what we do is allow a single packet to span multiple
>> files, but since MAX_SEND_SIZE is 128KB it will always be smaller than
>> a single file, so we can only ever span two files at most.
>
> Unless someone has tweaked their xlog segment size to insane values.
We should limit MAX_SEND_SIZE to be same or less than WAL_SEGMENT_SIZE.
We gain nothing by continuing to allow the existing code to work in
the way it does.
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