On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 May 2008, Gurjeet Singh wrote: > > Not if you use pg_clearxlogtail >>> >> >> This means we need to modify pg_standby to not check for filesize when >> reading XLogs. >> > > No, the idea is that you run the segments through pg_clearxlogtail | gzip, > which then compresses lightly used segments massively because all the unused > bytes are 0. File comes out the same size at the other side, but you didn't > ship a full 16MB if there was only a few KB used. Got it. I remember reading about pg_clearxlogtail in these mailing lists; but somehow forgot how it actually worked! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] gmail | hotmail | indiatimes | yahoo }.com EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Mail sent from my BlackLaptop device
