Subject: Re: Lowering the default wal_blocksize to 4K

From: Bruce Momjian <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 19:26:54 -0400

On Mon, Oct  9, 2023 at 04:08:05PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> There's an alternative approach we could take, which is to write in 4KB
> increments, while keeping 8KB pages. With the current format that's not
> obviously a bad idea. But given there aren't really advantages in 8KB WAL
> pages, it seems we should just go for 4KB?

How do we handle shorter maximum row lengths and shorter maximum index
entry lengths?

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