Re: Re: Idea: recycle WAL segments, don't delete/recreate 'emm

Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> > Hi -
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> > pgman wrote:
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> > : Most Unix filesystems will not allocate disk blocks until you write in
> > : them.  [...]
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> > Yes, I understand that, but how is it a problem for postgresql?
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> Uh, I thought we did that so we were not allocating file system blocks
> during WAL writes.  Performance is bad when we do that.
   Performance isn't the question. The problem is when you get a   "disk full" just in the middle of the need to write
important  WAL  information. While preallocation of a new WAL file, it's   OK and controlled, but there are more
delicate portions  of   the code.
 


Jan

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