Re: RE: Re: [ADMIN] v7.1b4 bad performance

From: Vadim Mikheev <vadim4o(at)email(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Schmidt, Peter" <peter(dot)schmidt(at)prismedia(dot)com>
Subject: Re: RE: Re: [ADMIN] v7.1b4 bad performance
Date: 2001-02-23 14:41:57
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> > > It may be that WAL has changed the rollback
> > > time-characteristics to worse than pre-wal ?
> >
> > Nothing changed ... yet. And in future rollbacks
> > of read-only transactions will be as fast as now,
> > anyway.
>
> What about rollbacks of a bunch uf inserts/updates/deletes?
>
> I remember a scenario where an empty table was used
> by several backends for gathering report data, and
> when the report is done they will rollback to keep
> the table empty.
>
> Should this kind of usage be replaced in the future by
> having backend id as a key and then doing delete by that
> key in the end ?

Isn't it what we have right now?
But I believe that in future we must remove
modifications made by aborted transactions
immediately, without keeping them till vacuum.
So - yes: rollback of read-write transactions
will take longer time.

Vadim

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