Re: Streaming replication on win32, still broken

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 2010/2/18 Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
>> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>> O_DIRECT helps us when we're not going to read the file again, because
>>>> we don't waste cache on it. If we are, which is the case here, it
>>>> should be really bad for performance, since we actually have to do a
>>>> physical read.
>>>>
>>>> Incidentally, that should also apply to general WAL when archive_mdoe
>>>> is on. Do we optimize for that?
>>> Hmm, no we don't. We do take that into account so that we refrain from
>>> issuing posix_fadvice(DONTNEED) if archive_mode is on, but we don't
>>> disable O_DIRECT. Maybe we should..
>> Since the performance of WAL write is more important than that of WAL
>> archiving in general, that optimization might offer little benefit.
>
> Well, it's going to make the process that reads the WAL cause actual
> physical I/O... That'll take a chunk out of your total available I/O,
> which is likely to push you to the limit of your I/O capacity much
> quicker.

Right, doesn't seem sensible, though it would be nice to see a benchmark
on that.

Here's a patch to disable O_DIRECT when archiving or streaming is
enabled. This is pretty hard to test, so any extra eyeballs would be nice..

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Heikki Linnakangas
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