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From: Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info>
To: Tadipathri Raghu <traghu.dba@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Why Wal_buffer is 64KB
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:05:47 -0400
Message-ID: <1269533147.5155.41.camel@bnicholson-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <645d9d71003250801o246439a0j93c7b568786e98de@mail.gmail.com>
References: <645d9d71003250801o246439a0j93c7b568786e98de@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 20:31 +0530, Tadipathri Raghu wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> Can anybody clarify on this, why wal_buffer is 64kb and what is
> advantages and disadvantages in increasing or decreasing the
> wal_buffer.

This is addressed in the documentation.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/wal-configuration.html

-- 
Brad Nicholson  416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.





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