Re: WAL insert delay settings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: WAL insert delay settings
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Msg-id 20190214084218.4ppveqpvglficynw@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: WAL insert delay settings  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: WAL insert delay settings  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
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Hi,

On 2019-02-13 23:21:39 -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> There would occasionally be cases where ops
> would find it useful to throttle WAL writing using their own terrible
> kludge (it involved sending SIGSTOP to the WAL writer).

That can't have been the workaround - either you'd interrupt it while
holding critical locks (in which case nobody could write WAL anymore),
or you'd just move all the writing to backends, no?

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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