On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 01:31:58PM +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote: > > (No, I don't think tar's blocksize options control this > > necessarily --- those indicate the blocking factor on the *tape*. > > And not everyone uses tar anyway.) > > If I'm desperate enough to get the 2x reduction of WAL writes, I may > even write my own backup solution.
I must be missing something obvious, but why don't we compress the xlogs? They appear to be quite compressable (>75%) with standard gzip... -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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