| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Faster CREATE DATABASE by delaying fsync (was 8.4.1 ubuntu karmic slow createdb) |
| Date: | 2010-02-14 17:37:15 |
| Message-ID: | 22649.1266169035@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On Sunday 14 February 2010 18:11:39 Tom Lane wrote:
>> It seems to me that we're talking about a huge hit in both code
>> complexity and performance to deal with a problem that doesn't actually
>> occur in the field; and which furthermore is trivially solved on any
>> modern filesystem by choosing the right filesystem options. Why don't
>> we just document those options, instead?
> Which options would that be? I am not aware that there any for any of the
> recent linux filesystems.
Shouldn't journaling of metadata be sufficient?
regards, tom lane
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