Re: moving pg_xlog -- yeah, it's worth it! - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: moving pg_xlog -- yeah, it's worth it!
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Msg-id 20100212141036.GB3737@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: moving pg_xlog -- yeah, it's worth it!  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Kevin Grittner wrote:

> > Anyway, given that these are replication
> > targets, and aren't the "database of origin" for any data of their
> > own, I guess there's no reason not to try asynchronous commit.
>
> Yeah; since the transactions only ever write commit records to WAL, it
> wouldn't matter a bit that they are lost on crash.  And you should see
> an improvement, because they wouldn't have to flush at all.

Actually, a transaction that performed no writes doesn't get a commit
WAL record written, so it shouldn't make any difference at all.

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