Re: write ahead logging in standby (streaming replication)

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: write ahead logging in standby (streaming replication)
Date: 2009-11-12 12:53:12
Message-ID: 1258030392.14054.189.camel@ebony
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On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 21:45 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:

> But, as I said on my first post on this thread, even such low-frequent
> fsync-WAL-before-buffer-flush might cause a response time spike on the
> primary because the walreceiver must sleep during that fsync. I think
> that leaving the WAL-logging business to another process like walwriter
> is a good idea for reducing further the impact on the walreceiver; In
> typical case,

Agree completely.

> Of course, since this approach is too complicated, it's out of the scope
> of the development for v8.5.

It's out of scope for phase 1, certainly.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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