Re: Re: Faster CREATE DATABASE by delaying fsync (was 8.4.1 ubuntu karmic slow createdb)

Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, Michael Clemmons <glassresistor@gmail.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com>, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Date: 2010-01-20T05:21:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance
Greg Stark wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Barring any objections shall I commit it like this?
>>     
>
> Actually before we get there could someone who demonstrated the
> speedup verify that this patch still gets that same speedup?
>   

I think the final version of this patch could use at least one more 
performance checking report that it does something useful.  We got a lot 
of data from Andres, but do we know that the improvements here hold for 
others too?  I can take a look at it later this week, I have some 
interest in this area.

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