On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 04:21:33PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> If we do have the pain of change, should we also consider making WAL
> files variable length? What do we gain by having the files all the
> same size? ISTM better to have WAL files that vary in length up to 1GB
> in size.
> 
> (This is all about XLOG_SEG_SIZE; I presume XLOG_BLCKSZ can stay as it
> is, right?)

I think having WAL use variable length files would add complexity for
recycling WAL files.

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