Re: Why Wal_buffer is 64KB

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tadipathri Raghu <traghu(dot)dba(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pierre C <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why Wal_buffer is 64KB
Date: 2010-03-29 06:45:44
Message-ID: dcc563d11003282345w6d3e7adbh6458b0f5a7c3d4a6@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Tadipathri Raghu <traghu(dot)dba(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thank you for all the support.
>
> I have noticed one more thing here, that if you turn off the fsync and try
> to run the transaction than its breaking the currnet filenode and generating
> another filenode. Is it true that whenever you turn off or on the fsync the
> filenode will break and create one more on that table.

From what I understand, with fsync on or off the same stuff gets
written. It's just not guaranteed to go out in the right order or
right now, but eventually.

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