Re: checkpointer continuous flushing

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: checkpointer continuous flushing
Date: 2016-01-21 08:11:40
Message-ID: 20160121081140.GN26711@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2016-01-21 11:33:15 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > I don't think it's strongly related - the contention here is on read
> > access to the clog, not on write access.
>
> Aren't reads on clog contended with parallel writes to clog?

Sure. But you're not going to beat "no access to the clog" due to hint
bits, by making parallel writes a bit better citizens.

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