Re: synchronous commit vs. hint bits

hi,

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:42 AM, YAMAMOTO Takashi
> <yamt(at)mwd(dot)biglobe(dot)ne(dot)jp> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> 5. Make the WAL writer more responsive, maybe using latches, so that
>>>>> it doesn't take as long for the commit record to make it out to disk.
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on this already as part of the update for power
>>>> reduction/group commit/replication performance.
>>>
>>> I extracted this from my current patch for you to test.
>>
>> is it expected to produce more frequent fsync?
>
> Yes, I would expect that. What kind of increase are you seeing? Is
> it causing a problem for you, or are you just making an observation?

i was curious because my application uses async commits mainly to
avoid frequent fsync. i have no numbers right now.

YAMAMOTO Takashi

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