Re: [HACKERS] disk caching for writing log

2010-12-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
flyusa2010 fly wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > Yes, i mean disk may lie to os. Our documentation covers this extensively: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/wal-reliability.html --- > > > On Fri, Dec 3,

Re: [HACKERS] disk caching for writing log

2010-12-05 Thread flyusa2010 fly
Thanks for your reply. Yes, i mean disk may lie to os. On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > On 12/03/2010 06:43 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > >> On 03.12.2010 13:49, flyusa2010 fly wrote: >> >>> When writing log, dbms should synchronously flush log to disk. I'm >>> w

Re: [HACKERS] disk caching for writing log

2010-12-03 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
On 12/03/2010 06:43 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 03.12.2010 13:49, flyusa2010 fly wrote: When writing log, dbms should synchronously flush log to disk. I'm wondering, if it is possible that the logs are in disk cache, while the control is returned to dbms again, so dbms thinks logs are persi

Re: [HACKERS] disk caching for writing log

2010-12-03 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 03.12.2010 13:49, flyusa2010 fly wrote: When writing log, dbms should synchronously flush log to disk. I'm wondering, if it is possible that the logs are in disk cache, while the control is returned to dbms again, so dbms thinks logs are persistent on disk. In this case, if the disk fails, the

[HACKERS] disk caching for writing log

2010-12-03 Thread flyusa2010 fly
When writing log, dbms should synchronously flush log to disk. I'm wondering, if it is possible that the logs are in disk cache, while the control is returned to dbms again, so dbms thinks logs are persistent on disk. In this case, if the disk fails, then there's incorrectness for dbms log writing,

Re: [HACKERS] Disk caching

2010-07-21 Thread Greg Smith
mac_man2...@yahoo.it wrote: Since I am interested just in work_mem variations, I should prevent each query to take advantages from revious executions of the 22 queries them selves. For example, taking cache advantages. work_mem has nothing to do with disk caching; it controls whether larger s

[HACKERS] Disk caching

2010-07-21 Thread mac_man2...@yahoo.it
Hi to all. I am trying to see how PostgreSQL performance changes on the basis of work_mem. So, I am going to execute the 22 queries of TPCH (http://www.tpc.org/tpch/) again and again, each time for a different value of work_mem. Since I am interested just in work_mem variations, I should preve