Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:55, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2. Straightforwardly observe the alignment rule. Since the received WAL
>>   data might start at the middle of WAL block, walreceiver needs to keep
>>   the last half-written WAL block for alignment. OTOH since the received
>>   data might end at the middle of WAL block, walreceiver needs zero-padding.
>>   As a result, walreceiver writes the set of the last WAL block, received
>>   data and zero-padding.

> May there be other reasons to d this as well?

Writing misaligned data is certain to be expensive even when it works...

                        regards, tom lane

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