Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Reiser4

2004-08-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote: > > Is there also a possibility to tell Postgres : "I don't care if I > > lose 30 seconds of transactions on this table if the power goes > > out, I just want to be sure it's still ACID et al. compliant but > > you can fsync less often and

Re: [PERFORM] Reiser4

2004-08-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Josh Berkus wrote: > Pierre, > > > Are there any plans in a future Postgresql version to support a special > > fsync method for Reiser4 which will use the filesystem's transaction > > engine, instead of an old kludge like fsync(), with a possibility of > > vastly enhanced performance ? >

Re: [PERFORM] Reiser4

2004-08-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote: > Is there also a possibility to tell Postgres : "I don't care if I lose 30 > seconds of transactions on this table if the power goes out, I just want > to be sure it's still ACID et al. compliant but you can fsync less often > and thus be faster" (with a

Re: [PERFORM] Reiser4

2004-08-13 Thread Josh Berkus
Pierre, > Are there any plans in a future Postgresql version to support a special > fsync method for Reiser4 which will use the filesystem's transaction > engine, instead of an old kludge like fsync(), with a possibility of > vastly enhanced performance ? I don't know of any such in p

[PERFORM] Reiser4

2004-08-13 Thread Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud
ReiserFS 4 is (will be) a filesystem that implements transactions. Are there any plans in a future Postgresql version to support a special fsync method for Reiser4 which will use the filesystem's transaction engine, instead of an old kludge like fsync(), with a possibility of vastly