Re: [HACKERS] Linux 2.6.6 also

2004-05-12 Thread Tom Lane
Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But the change highlights one point: the order in which file blocks are > written to disk is undefined. Theoretically the wal checkpoint record > could be on the platter, but the preceeding pages were not written. > Is that case handled by the wal repl

Re: [HACKERS] Linux 2.6.6 also

2004-05-12 Thread Manfred Spraul
Gregory Stark wrote: This patch also looks relevant to Postgres for two reasons. This part seems like it might expose some bugs that otherwise might have remained hidden: This affects I/O scheduling potentially quite significantly. It is no longer the case that the kernel wi

[HACKERS] Linux 2.6.6 also

2004-05-10 Thread Gregory Stark
This patch also looks relevant to Postgres for two reasons. This part seems like it might expose some bugs that otherwise might have remained hidden: This affects I/O scheduling potentially quite significantly. It is no longer the case that the kernel will submit pages for