From: | Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC |
Date: | 2001-03-15 19:51:21 |
Message-ID: | 20010315115121.B29888@fw.wintelcom.net |
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* Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [010315 11:45] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net> writes:
> > And since we're sorta on the topic of IO, I noticed that it looks
> > like (at least in 7.0.3) that vacuum and certain other routines
> > read files in reverse order.
>
> Vacuum does that because it's trying to push tuples down from the end
> into free space in earlier blocks. I don't see much way around that
> (nor any good reason to think that it's a critical part of vacuum's
> performance anyway). Where else have you seen such behavior?
Just vacuum, but the source is large, and I'm sort of lacking
on database-foo so I guessed that it may be done elsewhere.
You can optimize this out by implementing the read behind yourselves
sorta like this:
struct sglist *
read(fd, len)
{
if (fd.lastpos - fd.curpos <= THRESHOLD) {
fd.curpos = fd.lastpos - THRESHOLD;
len = THRESHOLD;
}
return (do_read(fd, len));
}
of course this is entirely wrong, but illustrates what
would/could help.
I would fix FreeBSD, but it's sort of a mess and beyond what
I've got time to do ATM.
--
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net|alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org]
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