Re: How do you change the size of the WAL files?

runner wrote:
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> >>  Our WAL files are 16 Mb in size each.  I cannot find where you
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> >>  configure them to make them larger.  16 Mb is too small for our
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> >>  instalation.  If necessary, I can rebuild the entire cluster.  Our
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> >>  DBA initialized a new cluster and specified a larger WAL size but it
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> >>  stayed at 16 Mb.  Any info on this?
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> > Why is 16MB too small?  Most people increase checkpoint_segments for
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> > larger installs and it works fine.
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> We are doing continuous archiving and we have thousands of these 16 Mb archive files on disk.
> My boss is used to using Oracle where you can set the size of the files.
> He'd rather have fewer but larger archive files.

There is no option to do that, but there is pg_lesslog which shrinks
them, though I realize you want fewer, larger ones.  This is a rare
request.

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