At 10:26 PM 2/7/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Seems like little redesign needed, except for adding the need_fsync
>> flag. Should be no more than about 20 lines.
>
>If you think this is a twenty line fix, take a deep breath and back
>away slowly. You have not understood the problem.
And, again, thank you.
>This is not a trivial change.
I was actually through that code months ago, wondering why (ahem)
PG was so stupid about disk I/O and reached the same conclusion.
Therefore, I was more than pleased when a simple fix to get rid
of fsync's on read-only transactions arose. In my application
space, this alone gave a huge performance boost.
WAL...that's it. If Vadim is going to be unavailable because
of his new job, we'll need to figure out another way to do it.
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