Re: synchronous commit vs. hint bits

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2011-11-07T23:33:25Z

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Allow hint bits to be set sooner for temporary and unlogged tables.
- 53f1ca59b587 9.2.0 cited

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walwriter_latch.v2.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v2

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

>> 5. Make the WAL writer more responsive, maybe using latches, so that
>> it doesn't take as long for the commit record to make it out to disk.
>
> I'm working on this already as part of the update for power
> reduction/group commit/replication performance.

I extracted this from my current patch for you to test.

Rather useful actually 'cos its allowed me a sensible phasing of the
development.

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