Re: Portworx snapshots - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Portworx snapshots
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Msg-id 86bd6d8e5019bd5f48a44c769f011613a1728f23.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: Portworx snapshots  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: Portworx snapshots  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> The downside with any snapshot-style approach is that it means that when
> you have a failure, you have to go through and replay all the WAL since
> the last checkpoint, which is single-threaded and can take a large
> amount of time.
> 
> When doing your testing, I'd strongly recommend that you have a large
> max_wal_size, run a large pgbench which writes a lot of data, and see
> how long a failover takes with this system.

Then "checkpoint_timeout" should also be large, right?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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