From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Block-level CRC checks |
Date: | 2008-10-20 19:04:40 |
Message-ID: | 48FCD648.7000907@enterprisedb.com |
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Markus Wanner wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> So this discussion died with no solution arising to the
>> hint-bit-setting-invalidates-the-CRC problem.
>
> Isn't double-buffering solving this issue? Has somebody checked if it
> even helps performance due to being able to release the lock on the
> buffer *before* the syscall?
Double-buffering helps with the hint bit issues within shared buffers,
but doesn't help with the torn page and hint bits problem. The torn page
problem seems to be the show-stopper.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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