Re: Page Checksums + Double Writes
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, alvherre@commandprompt.com, david@fetter.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-12-23T17:42:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes: > An obvious problem is that, if the abort rate is significantly > different from zero, and especially if the aborts are randomly mixed > in with commits rather than clustered together in small portions of > the XID space, the CLOG rollup data would become useless. Yeah, I'm afraid that with N large enough to provide useful acceleration, the cases where you'd actually get a win would be too thin on the ground to make it worth the trouble. regards, tom lane