Re: increasing the default WAL segment size

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:40:06PM -0300, Claudio Freire wrote:
> > time instead of requiring a recompile; we probably don't save any
> > significant number of cycles by compiling this into the server.
> 
> FWIW, +1
> 
> We're already hurt by the small segments due to a similar phenomenon
> as the ssh case: TCP slow start. Designing the archive/recovery
> command to work around TCP slow start is quite complex, and bigger
> segments would just be a better thing.
> 
> Not to mention that bigger segments compress better.

This would be good time to rename pg_xlog and pg_clog directories too.

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