Re: Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers
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Msg-id 4C12B5BA.10803@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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> Well, we're already not waiting for fsync, which is the slowest part.
> If there's a performance problem, it may be because FADVISE_DONTNEED
> disables kernel buffering so that we're forced to actually read the data
> back from disk before sending it on down the wire.

Well, that's fairly direct to solve, no?  Just disable FADVISE_DONTNEED
if walsenders > 0.

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