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Re: fix use of posix_fadvise in xlog.c

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-10T15:44:02Z
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> In a steady-state situation new WAL files are not created very often 
> because we recycle old ones, so it probably doesn't make much difference.

Yeah.  We really don't worry too much about the performance of the
new-WAL-file-creation code path because of this.

			regards, tom lane