Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > In particular I wonder why we bother with the page headers. A much > simpler format would be:
> - get rid of page headers, except for the header at the beginning of > each WAL segment > - get rid of continuation records > - at the end of WAL segment, when there's not enough space to write the > next WAL record, always write an XLOG SWITCH record to fill the rest of > the segment. What do you do with a WAL record that doesn't fit in a segment? (They do exist.) I don't think you can eliminate continuation records. You could maybe use them only at segment boundaries but I doubt that makes things any simpler than they are now. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers