Re: [HACKERS] increasing the default WAL segment size

On 2/24/17 6:30 AM, Kuntal Ghosh wrote:
> * You're considering any WAL file with a power of 2 as valid. Suppose,
> the correct WAL seg size is 64mb. For some reason, the server
> generated a 16mb invalid WAL file(maybe it crashed while creating the
> WAL file). Your code seems to treat this as a valid file which I think
> is incorrect. Do you agree with that?

Detecting correct WAL size based on the size of a random WAL file seems 
like a really bad idea to me.

I also don't see the reason for #2... or is that how initdb writes out 
the correct control file?
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