Re: WIP: WAL prefetch (another approach)

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jakub Wartak <Jakub(dot)Wartak(at)tomtom(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: WAL prefetch (another approach)
Date: 2021-04-22 01:59:58
Message-ID: CA+hUKGJKKh8TbA+6977zK5TKUSsTspBHsr0s4S42q7ynkxcPGQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 1:21 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I've also tried to reproduce on 32-bit and 64-bit Intel, without
> success. So if this is real, maybe it's related to being big-endian
> hardware? But it's also quite sensitive to $dunno-what, maybe the
> history of WAL records that have already been replayed.

Ah, that's interesting. There are a couple of sparc64 failures and a
ppc64 failure in the build farm, but I couldn't immediately spot what
was wrong with them or whether it might be related to this stuff.

Thanks for the clues. I'll see what unusual systems I can find to try
this on....

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