Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:55, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2. Straightforwardly observe the alignment rule. Since the received WAL >> data might start at the middle of WAL block, walreceiver needs to keep >> the last half-written WAL block for alignment. OTOH since the received >> data might end at the middle of WAL block, walreceiver needs zero-padding. >> As a result, walreceiver writes the set of the last WAL block, received >> data and zero-padding.
> May there be other reasons to d this as well? Writing misaligned data is certain to be expensive even when it works... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers