Re: Wrong docs on checkpoint_segments?

* Andres Freund:

> On Friday, January 07, 2011 01:45:25 PM Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 9.0, this configuration
>>
>> checkpoint_segments = 512     # in logfile segments, min 1, 16MB each
>>
>> results in 1034 segments, so the effective logfile segment size is 32 MB.
> Um. Is it possible that you redefined XLOG_SEG_SIZE or used --with-wal-
> segsize=SEGSIZE?

No, the individual files are still 16 MB.  It's just that the
checkpoint_segments limit is not a hard limit, and you end up with
slightly more than twice the configured number of segments on disk.

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