Re: Streaming replication on win32, still broken

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Streaming replication on win32, still broken
Date: 2010-02-17 09:00:59
Message-ID: 3f0b79eb1002170100v6d2b36b6ifa430318717f6f09@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> In that case, O_DIRECT would be counterproductive, no? It maps to
>> FILE_FLAG_NOI_BUFFERING, which makes sure it doesn't go into the
>> cache. So the read in the startup proc is actually guaranteed to
>> reuqire a physical read - of something we just wrote, so it'll almost
>> certainly end up waiting for a rotation, no?
>>
>> Seems like getting rid of O_DIRECT here is the right thing to do,
>> regardless of this.
>
> Agreed. I'll remove O_DIRECT from walreceiver.

Here is the patch to do that.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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remove_o_direct_from_walrcv_0217.patch text/x-patch 5.5 KB

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