Re: Re: [WIP] Performance Improvement by reducing WAL for Update Operation

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Amit kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>, "hlinnakangas@vmware.com" <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-10-24T19:17:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> -Patch-             -tps@-c1-   -tps@-c2-   -tps@-c8-   -WAL@-c8-
> HEAD,-F80           816         1644        6528        1821 MiB
> xlogscale,-F80      824         1643        6551        1826 MiB
> xlogscale+lz,-F80   717         1466        5924        1137 MiB
> xlogscale+lz,-F100  753         1508        5948        1548 MiB

Ouch.  I've been pretty excited by this patch, but I don't think we
want to take an "optimization" that produces a double-digit hit at 1
client and doesn't gain even at 8 clients. I'm surprised this is
costing that much, though.  It doesn't seem like it should.

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Robert Haas
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