| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC |
| Date: | 2001-03-16 16:59:43 |
| Message-ID: | 25146.984761983@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM> writes:
> I was wondering if the multiple writes performed to the
> XLOG could be grouped into one write().
>>
>> That would require fairly major restructuring of xlog.c, which I don't
> Restructing? Why? It's only XLogWrite() who make writes.
I was thinking of changing the data structure. I guess you could keep
the data structure the same and make XLogWrite more complicated, though.
>> I think it probably is a good idea to restructure xlog.c so
>> that it can write more than one page at a time --- but it's
>> not such a great idea that I want to hold up the release any
>> more for it.
> Agreed.
Yes, to-do item for 7.2.
regards, tom lane
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