Re: Release Note Changes

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Release Note Changes
Date: 2007-12-01 09:06:41
Message-ID: 47512421.70001@enterprisedb.com
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Josh Berkus wrote:
>> This might be worth mentioning, since it can be quite a big difference
>> in the right circumstances, and it helps a bit with the scalability
>> problem of the recovery. Should mention that it only helps with
>> full_pages_writes=on. One more reason to not gamble with data integrity
>> ;-).
>
> Does this mean that recovery from logs with full_page_writes will be faster
> than recovery from logs without them?

In general, yes. Depends a lot on how randomly the data in the WAL is
distributed, speed of reading from WAL etc.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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