On 11/18/16 6:17 AM, rajan wrote:
> One thing I missed to update is that the Source(master) machine I was
> running is switched off and on everyday. It may have caused any disruption
> in the WAL files?
Well, the point of the WAL is to preserve data integrity in case of
crashes. So, no, that should normally not cause problems.
> And one more question, The WAL files are created as 16MB segments, that is
> obvious. But I do not know when the file is completely written. Is it like,
> a file is created and then written till 16MB or 16MB data segment is
> directly written at once.
It is written in smaller chunks and then archived or rotated when the 16
MB are full.
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