On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Jon Nelson <jnelson+pg...@jamponi.net> wrote: > Pertinent to another thread titled > [HACKERS] corrupt pages detected by enabling checksums > I hope to explore the possibility of using fallocate (or > posix_fallocate) for new WAL file creation. > > Most modern Linux filesystems support fast fallocate/posix_fallocate, > reducing extent fragmentation (where extents are used) and frequently > offering a pretty significant speed improvement. In my tests, using > posix_fallocate (followed by pg_fsync) is at least 28 times quicker > than using the current method (which writes zeroes followed by > pg_fsync). > > I have written up a patch to use posix_fallocate in new WAL file > creation, including configuration by way of a GUC variable, but I've > not contributed to the PostgreSQL project before. Therefore, I'm > fairly certain the patch is not formatted properly or conforms to the > appropriate style guides. Currently, the patch is based on 9.2, and is > quite small in size - 3.6KiB. > > Advice on how to proceed is appreciated.
Make sure to list it here: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
