Re: when the startup process doesn't

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr(at)dalibo(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: when the startup process doesn't
Date: 2021-04-21 20:55:28
Message-ID: 801260.1619038528@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Andres Freund (andres(at)anarazel(dot)de) wrote:
>> What do you mean by that? That the overhead of writing it out more
>> frequently wouldn't be too bad? Or that we shouldn't "unnecessarily" add
>> more fields to it?

> Mostly just that the added overhead in writing it out more frequently
> wouldn't be too bad.

My concern about it was not at all about performance, but that every time
you write it is a new opportunity for the filesystem to lose or corrupt
the data.

regards, tom lane

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