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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: wal segment size
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:28:00 -0500
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM Colin 't Hart <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I see very little advice on tuning WAL segment size.
>
> One of my clients has a few datawarehouses at around 8 - 16 TB
>
> On one of the nodes there are approx 15000 WAL segments of 16MB each,
> totalling approx 230GB. The archiver is archiving approx one per second, so
> approx 4 hours to clear.
>

One second to archive 16 measly MB seems really darned slow.  Another vote
to *that* problem.

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