Re: [GENERAL] pg_xlog content

2008-12-02 Thread Siddharth Shah
Albe Laurenz wrote: Siddharth Shah wrote: I am not using wall based replication ? I no not have frequent & long transaction , need of checkpoints Just want to get what data resides in pg_xlog that it takes 16MB without any transactions. It contains the transaction log files. The

Re: [GENERAL] pg_xlog content

2008-12-02 Thread Albe Laurenz
Siddharth Shah wrote: > I am not using wall based replication ? I no not have frequent & > long transaction , need of checkpoints > Just want to get what data resides in pg_xlog that it takes 16MB without > any transactions. It contains the transaction log files. The files are precreated wi

Re: [GENERAL] pg_xlog content

2008-12-02 Thread Richard Huxton
Siddharth Shah wrote: >I am not using wall based replication ? I no not have frequent & long > transaction , need of checkpoints > Just want to get what data resides in pg_xlog that it takes 16MB without > any transactions. The files are created 16MB long, it is faster to overwrite that than t

Re: [GENERAL] pg_xlog content

2008-12-02 Thread Siddharth Shah
Richard Huxton wrote: Siddharth Shah wrote: Hi, When I initialize database, pg_xlog direcory takes almost 17 MB size Why pg_xlog/WAL takes 17 MB of size while there is no transaction occurred ? What is the content of pg_xlog , If it's only wal file it's must be blank after on write

Re: [GENERAL] pg_xlog content

2008-12-02 Thread Richard Huxton
Siddharth Shah wrote: > Hi, > >When I initialize database, pg_xlog direcory takes almost 17 MB size >Why pg_xlog/WAL takes 17 MB of size while there is no transaction > occurred ? > >What is the content of pg_xlog , If it's only wal file it's must be > blank after on write of transact

[GENERAL] pg_xlog content

2008-12-02 Thread Siddharth Shah
Hi, When I initialize database, pg_xlog direcory takes almost 17 MB size Why pg_xlog/WAL takes 17 MB of size while there is no transaction occurred ? What is the content of pg_xlog , If it's only wal file it's must be blank after on write of transaction on database. regards, Siddha