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From: John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: pgsql: Document wal_compression=on
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:17:02 +0000
Message-ID: <E1wekVa-000qkY-0r@gemulon.postgresql.org> (raw)

Document wal_compression=on

Commit 4035cd5d4 added LZ4 compression for full-page writes in WAL, and
retained "on" as a backward-compatible way to specify the builtin PGLZ
method. Document this meaning of "on" and update postgresql.conf.sample
to make the equivalence clear.

Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/akJDHRtXwGLTppsQ@msg.df7cb.de
Backpatch-through: 15

Branch
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REL_19_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b26e0f61451dfa0756d398129c79bbd46365b51e

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml                      | 1 +
src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)



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