Re: Full page writes improvement

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Koichi Suzuki <suzuki(dot)koichi(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Full page writes improvement
Date: 2007-02-01 19:59:07
Message-ID: 23241.1170359947@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Koichi Suzuki <suzuki(dot)koichi(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> Here's an idea and a patch for full page writes improvement.

> Idea:
> (1) keep full page writes for ordinary WAL, make them available during
> the crash recovery, -> recovery from inconsistent pages which can be
> made at the crash,
> (2) Remove them from the archive log except for those written during
> online backup (between pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup) -> small size
> archive log.

Doesn't this break crash recovery on PITR slaves?

regards, tom lane

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