Re: Proposed patch: Smooth replication during VACUUM FULL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Proposed patch: Smooth replication during VACUUM FULL
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In response to Re: Proposed patch: Smooth replication during VACUUM FULL  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Proposed patch: Smooth replication during VACUUM FULL  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I don't think the performance of replication is at issue. This is
> about resource control.
>

The unspoken question here is why would replication be affected by i/o
load anyways? It's reading data file buffers that have only recently
been written and should be in cache. I wonder if this system has
chosen O_DIRECT or something like that for writing out wal?

-- 
greg


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