Re: COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option
Date: 2007-02-27 22:17:45
Message-ID: 200702272217.l1RMHjZ15874@momjian.us
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Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> > You're missing my point, which is that nobody has demonstrated that there
> > is any real performance gain from this. I see no reason to implement it
> > if there is no performance gain.
>
> While I'll back your request for results, it seems nearly impossible
> to expect no performance gain using this.
>
> Results never hurt though.

The results are going to be very close to fsync off for sufficiently
high values delay, and we _know_ fsync off is a performance win.

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