Re: Heavy write activity on first vacuum of fresh TOAST data

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Heavy write activity on first vacuum of fresh TOAST data
Date: 2007-12-13 21:40:10
Message-ID: 1197582010.4255.1912.camel@ebony.site
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On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 15:19 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:12 PM, in message
> <1197569564(dot)4255(dot)1855(dot)camel(at)ebony(dot)site>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 11:46 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> >> If the hint bit changes are written to the WAL ...
> >
> > They're not.
>
> So one would expect a write-intensive initial vacuum after a
> PITR-style recovery?

Very perceptive. I was just thinking about that myself. An interesting
issue when running with full_page_writes off.

> What impact would lack of the hint bits have until a vacuum?

Vacuum isn't important here. Its the first idiot to read the data that
gets hit.

--
Simon Riggs
2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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