Re: draft RFC: concept for partial, wal-based replication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: draft RFC: concept for partial, wal-based replication
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Msg-id 3947.1259593644@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: draft RFC: concept for partial, wal-based replication  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
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Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> writes:
> Just a side note: in addition to its use for partial replication, this
> might have potential for performance-prioritizing databases or tablespaces.

> Being able to separate WAL logging so that different DBs, tablespaces,
> etc went to different sets of WAL logs would allow a DBA to give some
> databases or tablespaces dedicated WAL logging space on faster storage.

I don't think this can possibly work without introducing data corruption
issues.  What happens when a transaction touches tables in different
tablespaces?  You can't apply the changes out-of-order.
        regards, tom lane


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