Re: [HACKERS] COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option (patch)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option (patch)
Date: 2007-02-27 04:07:10
Message-ID: 10522.1172549230@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> What does this accomplish other than adding syntactic sugar over a
>> feature that really doesn't work well anyway?

> This patch doesn't intend to implement group commit. I've changed the
> meaning of commit_delay, sorry if that confuses.

Ah. The patch was pretty much unintelligible without the discussion
(which got here considerably later :-(). I've still got misgivings
about how safe it really is, but at least this is better than what
commit_delay wishes it could do.

regards, tom lane

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