Re: Proposal of PITR performance improvement for 8.4.

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Koichi Suzuki <koichi(dot)szk(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal of PITR performance improvement for 8.4.
Date: 2008-10-28 15:26:27
Message-ID: 1225207587.3971.183.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:34 +0000, Gregory Stark wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
>
> > I'm happy with the idea of a readahead process. I thought we were
> > implementing a BackgroundReader process for other uses. Is that dead
> > now?
>
> You and Bruce seem to keep resurrecting that idea.

Actually just asking for status, not trying to change design.

> I've never liked it -- I
> always hated that in Oracle and thought it was a terrible kludge.

But now... If you have a better way, great, but that doesn't make
perfectly workable and fairly simple userspace solutions into kludges.
That's just an emotive description of your preference.

--
Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

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