Re: Patch: Write Amplification Reduction Method (WARM)

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(dot)casanova(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch: Write Amplification Reduction Method (WARM)
Date: 2017-03-21 16:21:27
Message-ID: 20170321162127.uytpf4td4sczebk4@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2017-03-21 19:49:07 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I think that very wide columns and highly indexed tables are not
> > particularly unrealistic, nor do I think updating all the rows is
> > particularly unrealistic.
>
>
> Ok. But those who update 10M rows in a single transaction, would they
> really notice 5-10% variation?

Yes. It's very common in ETL, and that's quite performance sensitive.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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