Re: VX_CONCURRENT flag on vxfs( 5.1 or later) for performance for postgresql? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: VX_CONCURRENT flag on vxfs( 5.1 or later) for performance for postgresql?
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Msg-id 25785.1303997133@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to VX_CONCURRENT flag on vxfs( 5.1 or later) for performance for postgresql?  (HSIEN-WEN CHU <hsienwen.chu@googlemail.com>)
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HSIEN-WEN CHU <hsienwen.chu@googlemail.com> writes:
> When database files are on a VxFS filesystem, performance can be
> significantly improved by setting the VX_CONCURRENT cache advisory on
> the file according to vxfs document,

Presumably, if whatever behavior this invokes were an unalloyed good,
they'd have just made it the default.  The existence of a flag makes
me suppose that there are some clear application-visible downsides.
What are they?

BTW, please do not cross-post the same question to three different lists.
        regards, tom lane


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