Re: [HACKERS] Performance while loading data and indexing

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Performance while loading data and indexing
Date: 2002-09-26 21:41:22
Message-ID: 200209262141.g8QLfMr09064@candle.pha.pa.us
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Doug McNaught wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > We'd be happiest with a filesystem that journals its own metadata and
> > not the user data in the file(s). I dunno if there are any.
>
> ext3 with data=writeback? (See my previous message to Bruce).

OK, so that makes ext3 crash safe without lots of overhead?

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