From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Subject: [PATCH] Document wal_compression=on
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:04:13 +0200
Message-ID: <akJDHRtXwGLTppsQ@msg.df7cb.de> (raw)
The docs currently don't say what wal_compression=on is, so here is a
patch.
Christoph
Attachments:0001-Document-wal_compression-on.patch (text/x-diff, 1.1K) download
From 0cb33f052a9c162fa199bc9a71ee29240347e710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:58:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document wal_compression=on
This was not included when lz4 support was added in
4035cd5d4eee4dae797bfc77ab07f8dcd8781b41, but since the value is still
legal and even mentioned in postgresql.conf.sample, it should be
documented.
---
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgmlindex 569fc0e7dba..d645a50476f 100644--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml@@ -3671,6 +3671,7 @@ include_dir 'conf.d'
was compiled with <option>--with-lz4</option>) and
<literal>zstd</literal> (if <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
was compiled with <option>--with-zstd</option>).
+ The value <literal>on</literal> is a deprecated alias for <literal>pglz</literal>.
The default value is <literal>off</literal>.
Only superusers and users with the appropriate <literal>SET</literal>
privilege can change this setting.
--
2.53.0
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