Re: Page Checksums + Double Writes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Page Checksums + Double Writes
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Msg-id 26849.1324662162@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Page Checksums + Double Writes  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Page Checksums + Double Writes  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Re: Page Checksums + Double Writes  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> An obvious problem is that, if the abort rate is significantly
> different from zero, and especially if the aborts are randomly mixed
> in with commits rather than clustered together in small portions of
> the XID space, the CLOG rollup data would become useless.

Yeah, I'm afraid that with N large enough to provide useful
acceleration, the cases where you'd actually get a win would be too thin
on the ground to make it worth the trouble.
        regards, tom lane


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