>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2007 at  7:03 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: 
> 
> I think ... there's still room for a simple tool that can zero out
> the meaningless data in a partially-used WAL segment before compression.
> It seems reasonable to me, so long as you keep archive_timeout at
> something reasonably high.
> 
> If nothing else, people that already have a collection of archived WAL
> segments would then be able to compact them.
 
That would be a *very* useful tool for us, particularly if it could work
against our existing collection of old WAL files.
 
-Kevin
 



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