Re: CLOG extension

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CLOG extension
Date: 2012-05-03 19:18:45
Message-ID: CA+TgmobS+PzLa+oq3simwakSeJJxtH3Nerh-RdViy0qcgrdHaw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Doing it a background process, though, may make sense.  What I'm a
> little worried about is that - on a busy system - we've only got about
> 2 seconds to complete each CLOG extension, and we must do an fsync in
> order to get there.

Scratch that - we don't routinely need to do an fsync, though we can
end up backed up behind one if wal_buffers are full. I'm still more
interested in the do-it-a-page-in-advance idea discussed upthread, but
this might be viable as well.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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