Re: Raising the checkpoint_timeout limit

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Raising the checkpoint_timeout limit
Date: 2016-02-03 21:07:12
Message-ID: 56B26C00.5010903@BlueTreble.com
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On 2/2/16 10:10 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Now, you could also set such configuration settings in
> a situation where it will not work out well. But that is true of most
> configuration settings.

Yeah, if we're going to start playing parent then I think the first
thing to do is remove the fsync GUC. The AWS team has done testing that
shows it to be worthless from a performance standpoint now that we have
synchronous commit, and it's an extremely large foot-bazooka to have
laying around.
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Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
Experts in Analytics, Data Architecture and PostgreSQL
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