Re: bad performance on Solaris 10

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jignesh K(dot) Shah" <J(dot)K(dot)Shah(at)Sun(dot)COM>
Cc: Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Chris Mair <list(at)1006(dot)org>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: bad performance on Solaris 10
Date: 2006-04-13 08:39:35
Message-ID: 200604130839.k3D8dZQ26118@candle.pha.pa.us
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Jignesh K. Shah wrote:
>
> Bruce,
>
> Hard to answer that... People like me who know and love PostgreSQL and
> Solaris finds this as an opportunity to make their favorite database
> work best on their favorite operating system.
>
> Many times PostgreSQL has many things based on assumption that it will
> run on Linux and it is left to Solaris to emulate that behavior.That
> said there are ways to improve performance even on UFS on Solaris, it
> just requires more tweaks.
>
> Hopefully this will lead to few Solaris friendly default values like
> fsync/odatasync :-)

Yes, if someone wants to give us a clear answer on which wal_sync method
is best on all versions of Solaris, we can easily make that change.

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