Re: WALWriteLocks

From: Vijaykumar Jain <vijaykumarjain(dot)github(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Don Seiler <don(at)seiler(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WALWriteLocks
Date: 2021-05-24 14:13:15
Message-ID: CAM+6J96N8SQ_eV1ttdVJmVEyHxz8m96Cp2A4YpZyX3FLf8E2pg@mail.gmail.com
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Hey Don,

Was this resolved?
We're there any changes after moving wal to ssd ?

On Wed, May 5, 2021, 10:14 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:

> On Wed, 2021-05-05 at 11:25 -0500, Don Seiler wrote:
> > What I want to know is if there are other events that would contribute
> > to a WALWriteLock (eg writing to a data file or the postgresql.log file)
> > or is it 100% writing to the WAL file.
>
> You don't contribute to a lock...
>
> The documentation says
> (
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/monitoring-stats.html#WAIT-EVENT-LOCK-TABLE
> ):
>
> > WALWrite Waiting for WAL buffers to be written to disk.
>
> So it is contention while writing or flushing WAL.
> You can read the code for the details.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
> --
> Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com
>
>

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