Once again, pros and cons should be left to users discretion because one may have latest and greatest hardware and network resources. For example a SSD on a fiber channel on a high speed network. Regards, rs On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:06 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> There are tradeoffs in the other direction too, but if you feel you must >>> have a different value, see configure's --with-wal-segsize option. Note >>> that you cannot change this without re-initdb. > >> Is there a limit to the max size? > > Hmm, it looks like the configure script only allows 1-64MB. I'm not > sure offhand if that's protecting a restriction elsewhere, or just > not bothering to extend the switch for more cases. Keep in mind that > the larger you make this, the more data you can lose because it wasn't > archived yet when your master machine failed. > > regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general