Re: Redesigning checkpoint_segments

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Redesigning checkpoint_segments
Date: 2013-06-05 19:18:10
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:

> I was not thinking of making it a hard limit. It would be just
> like checkpoint_segments from that point of view - if a
> checkpoint takes a long time, max_wal_size might still be
> exceeded.

Then I suggest we not use exactly that name.  I feel quite sure we
would get complaints from people if something labeled as "max" was
exceeded -- especially if they set that to the actual size of a
filesystem dedicated to WAL files.

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Kevin Grittner
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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