Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2008 16:22:41 -0400 (EDT) Greg Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 May 2008, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote: > > > > > Then you ship 16 MB binary stuff every 30 second or every minute but > > > you only have some kbyte real data in the logfile. > > > > Not if you use pg_clearxlogtail ( > > http://www.2ndquadrant.com/replication.htm ), which got lost in the giant > > March commitfest queue but should probably wander into contrib as part of > > 8.4. > > Yes, this topic was discussed several times in the past but to > solve this it needs a patch/solution which is integrated into PG > itself, not contrib.
Agreed. I realize why we are not zeroing those bytes (for performance), but can't we have the archiver zero those bytes before calling the 'archive_command'? -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
