WAL monitoring and optimizing

From: Marco Colombo <marco(at)esi(dot)it>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: WAL monitoring and optimizing
Date: 2003-03-31 12:06:50
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0303311257180.5053-100000@Megathlon.ESI
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Hi, i'm running 7.2.3 (on RHL7.3). I've read the "WAL Configuration"
section of the manual:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.2&idoc=0&file=wal-configuration.html

I've set wal_debug = 1 in postgresql.conf, but there's no example
of how LogInsert and LogFlush are logged. I can find many

DEBUG: XLogFlush: request 6/6D8F54BC; write 6/6E13ECB8; flush 6/6E13ECB8

lines in my log, but no XLogInsert. There are lot of

DEBUG: INSERT @ 6/70DC8744: prev 6/70DC8564; xprev 6/70DC8564; xid 372353616; bkpb 1: Btree - insert: node 9468978/12901623;

lines, but it's not clear if they are calls to LogInsert or something
different. They also come in different kinds (Btree - insert,
Heap - update, Transaction - commit, XLOG - checkpoint:, maybe others)
and I don't know which ones I should be looking for.

I've got 7365 'XLogFlush:' lines and 23275 'INSERT @' lines in the
last 9 hours. Should I increase the number of WAL buffers?

TIA,
.TM.
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____/ ____/ /
/ / / Marco Colombo
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/ / / ESI s.r.l.
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