Re: [PATCHES] COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option (patch) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCHES] COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option (patch)
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Msg-id 10522.1172549230@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] COMMIT NOWAIT Performance Option (patch)  ("Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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"Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> What does this accomplish other than adding syntactic sugar over a
>> feature that really doesn't work well anyway?

> This patch doesn't intend to implement group commit. I've changed the
> meaning of commit_delay, sorry if that confuses.

Ah.  The patch was pretty much unintelligible without the discussion
(which got here considerably later :-().  I've still got misgivings
about how safe it really is, but at least this is better than what
commit_delay wishes it could do.

            regards, tom lane

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