On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's not necessarily an argument against this patch, which by the
> way I have not reviewed. Even a 5% speedup on this kind of workload
> is potentially worthwhile; everyone likes it when things go faster.
> I'm just not convinced you can get very much more than that on a
> realistic workload. Of course, I might be wrong.
Oh, incidentally -- in our internal testing, we found that
wal_sync_method=open_datasync was significantly faster than
wal_sync_method=fdatasync. You might find that open_datasync isn't
much different from pmem_drain, even though they're both faster than
fdatasync.
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Robert Haas
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