On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 09:16:32AM +0000, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > This has one user-visible change: switching to a new WAL segment with > pg_switch_xlog() now fills the remaining unused portion of the segment with > zeros. This potentially adds some overhead, but it has been a very common > practice by DBA's to clear the "tail" of the segment with an external > pg_clearxlogtail utility anyway, to make the WAL files compress better. > With this patch, it's no longer necessary to do that.
So this removes the need to add pg_clearxlogtail to contrib? Great. Thanks. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
