On 10/26/2010 05:52 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > And horrible for performance, I imagine. Those locks are highly trafficked.
Note, however, that offloading this to the file-system just moves congestion there. So we are effectively saying that we expect filesystems to do a better job (in that aspect) than our WAL implementation. (Note that I'm not claiming that is or is not true - I didn't measure). Regards Markus Wanner -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
