On Sat, 31 May 2008, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
>> Not if you use pg_clearxlogtail
>
> This means we need to modify pg_standby to not check for filesize when
> reading XLogs.
No, the idea is that you run the segments through pg_clearxlogtail | gzip,
which then compresses lightly used segments massively because all the
unused bytes are 0. File comes out the same size at the other side, but
you didn't ship a full 16MB if there was only a few KB used.
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