On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2016-08-24 22:33:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> > Possibly it would make sense for this to be configurable at initdb >> > time instead of requiring a recompile; >> >> ... but I think this is just folly. You'd have to do major amounts >> of work to keep, eg, slave servers on the same page as the master >> about what the segment size is. > > Don't think it'd actually be all that complicated, we already verify > the compatibility of some things. But I'm doubtful it's worth it, and > I'm also rather doubtful that it's actually without overhead.
Really? Where do you think the overhead would come from? What sort of test would you run to try to detect it? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
