On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Doing it a background process, though, may make sense. What I'm a
> little worried about is that - on a busy system - we've only got about
> 2 seconds to complete each CLOG extension, and we must do an fsync in
> order to get there.
Scratch that - we don't routinely need to do an fsync, though we can
end up backed up behind one if wal_buffers are full. I'm still more
interested in the do-it-a-page-in-advance idea discussed upthread, but
this might be viable as well.
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