From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jerry Jelinek <jerry(dot)jelinek(at)joyent(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: patch to allow disable of WAL recycling |
Date: | 2018-07-18 19:45:31 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoYFnuiNMyR9OyatM7OxurPey+1YsB6SRRF2m3fkg6p9Bw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Tomas Vondra
<tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Makes sense, I guess. But I think many claims made in this thread are
> mostly just assumptions at this point, based on our beliefs how CoW or
> non-CoW filesystems work. The results from ZFS (showing positive impact)
> are an exception, but that's about it. I'm sure those claims are based
> on real-world experience and are likely true, but it'd be good to have
> data from a wider range of filesystems / configurations etc. so that we
> can give better recommendations to users, for example.
I agree that there's a lot of assuming going on.
> That's something I can help with, assuming we agree on what tests we
> want to do. I'd say the usual batter of write-only pgbench tests with
> different scales (fits into s_b, fits into RAM, larger then RAM) on
> common Linux filesystems (ext4, xfs, btrfs) and zfsonlinux, and
> different types of storage would be enough. I don't have any freebsd box
> available, unfortunately.
Those sound like reasonable tests. I also don't think we need to have
perfect recommendations. Some general guidance is good enough for a
start and we can refine it as we know more. IMHO, anyway.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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