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Re: [HACKERS] Full page writes improvement, code update

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, "Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>, "Koichi Suzuki" <suzuki.koichi@oss.ntt.co.jp>, pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-04-24T18:19:30Z
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Well, as a PG hacker I find the name wal_fullpage_optimization quite
> baffling and I think our general user base will find it even more so.
> Now that I have Koichi's explanation of the problem, I vote for simply
> slaving this to the PITR settings and not having a separate option at
> all.

The way to not have a separate option is to not need one, by having the
feature not cost anything extra in the first place.  Andreas and I have
made the point repeatedly about how to do that.

			regards, tom lane