Re: WAL bandwidth

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WAL bandwidth
Date: 2014-05-22 19:17:12
Message-ID: 537E4D38.7000403@commandprompt.com
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On 05/22/2014 12:04 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>
> On 5/22/2014 11:46 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>> This does not appear the domain of PostgreSQL as much as the domain of
>> your OS and network layer.
>
> I think he's asking for a throttle on create index, so OTHER WAL
> activity would proceed at full speed, but the CREATE INDEX would somehow
> constrain itself to not generating more than N blocks/second
>

Yeah I was a bit obtuse in my answer. I didn't meant to be. IMO, the
problem is that he doesn't have enough Network IO. We don't want to
throttle PostgreSQL.

JD

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