Re: SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave and race conditions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave and race conditions
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Msg-id 200707172321.l6HNLls29735@momjian.us
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In response to Re: SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave and race conditions  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave and race conditions  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> 
> > I'd guess that storing 8 per page would be optimal, so each stored xid would
> > track 4,000 transactions - probably around 1 sec worth of transactions when
> > the feature is used.
> 
> This is something we can experiment with but I suspect that while 8 might be
> sufficient for many use cases there would be others where more would be
> better. The cost to having more lsns stored in the clog would be pretty small.
> 
> On TPCC which has longer transactions on moderate hardware we only see order
> of 1,000 txn/min. So a setting like 128 which allows a granularity of 256
> transactions would be about 15s which is not so much longer than the xmin
> horizon of the 90th percentile response time of 2*5s.
> 
> -- 
>   Gregory Stark
>   EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com
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