Re: Refactoring the checkpointer's fsync request queue

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Shawn Debnath <sdn(at)amazon(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Refactoring the checkpointer's fsync request queue
Date: 2019-01-22 20:53:11
Message-ID: CACjxUsOfv2-AyiRESKjiwzGjwOPjjWUsrNsZmkHrqHw97-+w2A@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:38 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> close() doesn't trigger an fsync() in general

What sort of a performance hit was observed when testing the addition
of fsync or fdatasync before any PostgreSQL close() of a writable
file, or have we not yet checked that?

> https://postgr.es/m/20180427222842.in2e4mibx45zdth5%40alap3.anarazel.de
> is, I think, a good overview, with a bunch of links.

Thanks! Will review.

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Kevin Grittner
VMware vCenter Server
https://www.vmware.com/

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