On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure, if you think both Writes and Reads at OS level can have some > chance of blocking in obscure cases, then we should add a wait event > for them.
I think writes have a chance of blocking in cases even in cases that are not very obscure at all. >> I think somebody should try a pgbench run with this patch applied, >> using a scale factor greater than shared_buffers, and generate a wait >> event profile, just to see if these are showing up and how often. > > Yeah, that makes sense to me and we should try for both read-write and > read-only tests. wfm. -- 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
