Re: CentOS - PostgreSQL 9.2.13 -> 9.4

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael H <michael(at)wemoto(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CentOS - PostgreSQL 9.2.13 -> 9.4
Date: 2015-08-18 18:02:07
Message-ID: 20150818180207.GJ5232@alvherre.pgsql
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I wrote:

> One thing to look at is the rate of WAL generation for a set number of
> transactions. Maybe the later releases are generating more WAL due to
> multixacts, for instance (prior to 9.3 these weren't wal-logged.)

FWIW a very easy way to measure this is to look at the output of
"pg_xlogdump -r MultiXact" for the WAL generated during the testing
period.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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