Re: Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers

Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-07T14:20:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
>> Stop me if I'm all wrong already, but I though we said that we should
>> handle this case by decoupling what we can send to the standby and what
>> it can apply.
>
> What's the point of that?  It won't make the standby apply any faster.

True, but it allows to send the WAL content before to ack its fsync.

Regards.
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dim