From c3fe108c025e4a080315562d4c15ecbe3f00405e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fujii Masao Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:30:18 +0900 Subject: Rename wal_keep_segments to wal_keep_size. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit max_slot_wal_keep_size that was added in v13 and wal_keep_segments are the GUC parameters to specify how much WAL files to retain for the standby servers. While max_slot_wal_keep_size accepts the number of bytes of WAL files, wal_keep_segments accepts the number of WAL files. This difference of setting units between those similar parameters could be confusing to users. To alleviate this situation, this commit renames wal_keep_segments to wal_keep_size, and make users specify the WAL size in it instead of the number of WAL files. There was also the idea to rename max_slot_wal_keep_size to max_slot_wal_keep_segments, in the discussion. But we have been moving away from measuring in segments, for example, checkpoint_segments was replaced by max_wal_size. So we concluded to rename wal_keep_segments to wal_keep_size. Back-patch to v13 where max_slot_wal_keep_size was added. Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, David Steele Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/574b4ea3-e0f9-b175-ead2-ebea7faea855@oss.nttdata.com --- src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample') diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample index 29e01521966..5a0b8e98217 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample +++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ #max_wal_senders = 10 # max number of walsender processes # (change requires restart) -#wal_keep_segments = 0 # in logfile segments; 0 disables +#wal_keep_size = 0 # in megabytes; 0 disables #max_slot_wal_keep_size = -1 # in megabytes; -1 disables #wal_sender_timeout = 60s # in milliseconds; 0 disables -- cgit v1.2.3