| From: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #4879: bgwriter fails to fsync the file in recovery mode |
| Date: | 2009-06-26 01:56:06 |
| Message-ID: | 3f0b79eb0906251856p72777b81gc8c37b8ffe283d42@mail.gmail.com |
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Hi,
Thank you for addressing the problem!
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Heikki
Linnakangas<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> We certainly update it an order of magnitude more often than before, but
> I don't think that's an issue. We're talking about archive recovery
> here. It's not like in normal operation where a corrupt pg_control file
> means that you lose your data. It will stop the server from starting up,
> but there's many other files that can be corrupt in a way that causes
> recovery to fail or stop too early.
Frequent updating of pg_control causes the significant performance
degradation of archive recovery. I think that this is an issue to be fixed.
The warm-standby users (including me) care about the performance
of the standby server, because that affects the failover time, for example.
Regards,
--
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
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