Le 2013-01-07 à 16:49, james a écrit :

Is there a way to force a WAL flush so that async commits (from other 
connections) are flushed, short of actually updating a sacrificial row?

Would be nice to do it without generating anything extra, even if it is 
something that causes IO in the checkpoint.

Am I right to think that an empty transaction won't do it, and nor will a 
transaction that is just a NOTIFY?

Does pg_start_backup() trigger a full WAL flush?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-LOWLEVEL-BASE-BACKUP
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-BACKUP-TABLE

Bye,
François

That sounds rather heavyweight!

I'm looking for something lightweight - I might call this rather often, as a sort of application-level group commit where I commit async but defer the ack to the requester (or other externally visible side effects) slightly until some other thread forces a flush.



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