Re: 8.4 open item: copy performance regression?

From: Alan Li <ali(at)truviso(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 8.4 open item: copy performance regression?
Date: 2009-06-22 06:42:40
Message-ID: 782056770906212342n2e04c3b7k5987b6e59a1f8374@mail.gmail.com
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Hi Tom,

How much concern is there for the contention for use cases where the WAL
can't be bypassed?

Thanks, Alan

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
> > The following copying 3M rows(each) into a seperate table of the same
> > database.
>
> Is this with WAL, or bypassing WAL? Given what we've already seen,
> a lot of contention for WALInsertLock wouldn't surprise me much here.
> It should be possible to bypass that though.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
>

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