Commit 2cae0aeb authored by Robert Haas's avatar Robert Haas

Revert "Correct WAL space calculation formula in docs."

This reverts commit 915116bc.

Per discussion, the previous formula was in fact correct.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2010-10/msg00038.php
parent 0d5deebe
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<para>
There will always be at least one WAL segment file, and will normally
not be more files than the higher of <xref linkend="guc-wal-keep-segments"> or
(2 + <varname>checkpoint_completion_target</varname>) * <varname>checkpoint_segments</varname> + 1.
Each segment file is normally 16 MB (though this size can be
not be more than (2 + <varname>checkpoint_completion_target</varname>) * <varname>checkpoint_segments</varname> + 1
or <varname>checkpoint_segments</> + <xref linkend="guc-wal-keep-segments"> + 1
files. Each segment file is normally 16 MB (though this size can be
altered when building the server). You can use this to estimate space
requirements for <acronym>WAL</acronym>.
Ordinarily, when old log segment files are no longer needed, they
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