> Hmmm ... if you were willing to dedicate a half meg or meg of shared
> memory for WAL buffers, that's doable.
Yup, configuring Informix to three 2 Mb buffers (LOGBUF 2048) here.
> However, this would only be a win if you had few and large transactions.
> Any COMMIT will force a write of whatever we have so far, so the idea of
> writing hundreds of K per WAL write can only work if it's hundreds of K
> between commit records. Is that a common scenario? I doubt it.
It should help most for data loading, or mass updating, yes.
Andreas
