From: Andres Freund on
Hi,

On Friday 18 June 2010 00:22:00 Josh Berkus wrote:
> We've noticed that checksums and file sizes for the master database, and
> slave database, even after all transactions have been cleared, are not
> identical. Why is that?
Non Wal-Logged action like visibility bits.

Andres

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From: Andrew Dunstan on


Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(a)anarazel.de> writes:
>
>> On Friday 18 June 2010 00:22:00 Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>>> We've noticed that checksums and file sizes for the master database, and
>>> slave database, even after all transactions have been cleared, are not
>>> identical. Why is that?
>>>
>
>
>> Non Wal-Logged action like visibility bits.
>>
>
> That wouldn't affect file sizes though. Could we have some specifics?
>
>
>

I have not noticed different file sizes, only checksums.

cheers

andrew

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From: Tom Lane on
Andres Freund <andres(a)anarazel.de> writes:
> On Friday 18 June 2010 00:22:00 Josh Berkus wrote:
>> We've noticed that checksums and file sizes for the master database, and
>> slave database, even after all transactions have been cleared, are not
>> identical. Why is that?

> Non Wal-Logged action like visibility bits.

That wouldn't affect file sizes though. Could we have some specifics?

regards, tom lane

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