On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doing it a background process, though, may make sense. What I'm a > little worried about is that - on a busy system - we've only got about > 2 seconds to complete each CLOG extension, and we must do an fsync in > order to get there.
Scratch that - we don't routinely need to do an fsync, though we can end up backed up behind one if wal_buffers are full. I'm still more interested in the do-it-a-page-in-advance idea discussed upthread, but this might be viable as well. -- 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
