Re: CommitDelay performance improvement - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: CommitDelay performance improvement
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Msg-id 200102240205.VAA12697@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: CommitDelay performance improvement  (ncm@zembu.com (Nathan Myers))
Responses Re: CommitDelay performance improvement  (ncm@zembu.com (Nathan Myers))
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> > > It seems to me that comparing various choices (and other, more
> > > interesting, algorithms) to the N=1 case would be more productive
> > > than comparing them to the N=0 case, so releasing at N=1 would yield
> > > better statistics for actually tuning in 7.2.
> >
> > We don't release code because it has better tuning opportunities for
> > later releases. What we can do is give people parameters where the
> > default is safe, and they can play and report to us.
> 
> Perhaps I misunderstood.  I had perceived N=1 as a conservative choice
> that was nevertheless preferable to N=0.

I think zero delay is the conservative choice at this point, unless we
hear otherwise from testers.

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