Excerpts from Markus Wanner's message of mié oct 27 11:44:20 -0300 2010: > 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.
Well, you can just read at your pace from the filesystem; the data is going to stay there for a long time. WAL buffers are constantly moving, and aren't as big. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
