On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Yes, I don't see writing to two files vs. one to be any win, especially
> when we need to fsync both of them. What I would really like is to
> avoid the double I/O of writing to WAL and to the data file; improving
> that would be a huge win.
You mean, the double I/O of writing the block to the WAL and data file?
(We'd still have to write the changed columns or whatever to the WAL,
right?)
I'd just add an option to turn it off. If you need it, you need it;
there's no way around that except to buy hardware that is really going
to guarantee your writes (which then means you don't need it).
cjs
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