| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Michael Clemmons <glassresistor(at)gmail(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Faster CREATE DATABASE by delaying fsync (was 8.4.1 ubuntu karmic slow createdb) |
| Date: | 2009-12-29 00:29:34 |
| Message-ID: | 200912290129.35267.andres@anarazel.de |
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On Tuesday 29 December 2009 01:27:29 Greg Stark wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > fsync everything in that pass.
> > Including the directory - which was not done before and actually might be
> > necessary in some cases.
>
> Er. Yes. At least on ext4 this is pretty important. I wish it weren't,
> but it doesn't look like we're going to convince the ext4 developers
> they're crazy any day soon and it would really suck for a database
> created from a template to have files in it go missin.
Actually it was necessary on ext3 as well - the window to hit the problem just
was much smaller, wasnt it?
Actually that part should possibly get backported.
Andres
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