Re: [WIP] Double-write with Fast Checksums

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-01-11T23:13:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 1/11/12 1:25 PM, Dan Scales wrote:
>> And just wanted to reiterate one other benefit of double writes -- it greatly reduces the size of the WAL logs.
>
> Even if you're replicating?

Yes, but it will increase random I/O on the standby when we replay if
we don't have FPWs.

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