Re: wal_buffers, redux

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: wal_buffers, redux
Date: 2012-03-14 20:53:58
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYw0K+Dp55P1QttCirMBjgZ+srtW=vG2=dWrti2ddws4w@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I think my analysis is pretty much a re-wording of yours, but I'd
> emphasize that getting the WALWriteLock is bad not just because they
> fight over the lock, but because someone else (probably background wal
> writer) is camping out on the lock while doing an fsync.

Yeah, good point.

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Robert Haas
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