Re: Cost of XLogInsert CRC calculations - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Cost of XLogInsert CRC calculations
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Msg-id 1115839924.3830.296.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Cost of XLogInsert CRC calculations  ("Mark Cave-Ayland" <m.cave-ayland@webbased.co.uk>)
Responses Re: Cost of XLogInsert CRC calculations
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On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:40 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> So unless we can guarantee a minimum of 1k data per Xlog record then
> Adler-32 won't be suitable. 

Most records are either 8KB or much less than 1KB. Is the benefit gained
from the 8KB records worth the loss on the more frequent smaller
records?

> perhaps the CRC-32 routines could be written in in-line assembler

If you can do this, step right up. :-)

Best Regards, Simon Riggs



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