Re: [HACKERS] History of WAL_LEVEL (archive vs hot_standby)

2015-01-02 Thread Noah Misch
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 08:16:13PM -0700, David Johnston wrote: > Slightly tangential but are the locking operations associated with the > recent bugfix generated in both (all?) modes or only hot_standby? All modes. > I thought > it strange that transient locking operations were output with WAL t

[HACKERS] History of WAL_LEVEL (archive vs hot_standby)

2014-03-28 Thread shamccoy
Hello. I've been doing some benchmarks on performance / size differences between actions when wal_level is set to either archive or hot_standby. I'm not seeing a ton of difference. I've read some posts about discussions as to whether this parameter should be simplified and remove or merge these

Re: [HACKERS] History of WAL_LEVEL (archive vs hot_standby)

2014-03-27 Thread Amit Langote
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:16 PM, David Johnston wrote: > > Slightly tangential but are the locking operations associated with the > recent bugfix generated in both (all?) modes or only hot_standby? I thought > it strange that transient locking operations were output with WAL though I > get it if

Re: [HACKERS] History of WAL_LEVEL (archive vs hot_standby)

2014-03-27 Thread Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
Hi, > > Went looking for this in the docs... > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/runtime-config-wal.html#GUC-WAL-LEVEL > > > > So I guess, no-restore/offline/online would be good names (and maybe > > wal_restore_mode instead of wal_level) if we started from scratch. Note > >

Re: [HACKERS] History of WAL_LEVEL (archive vs hot_standby)

2014-03-27 Thread David Johnston
David Johnston wrote > > Noah Misch-2 wrote >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:06:02PM -0700, David Johnston wrote: >>> shamccoy wrote >>> > Hello. I've been doing some benchmarks on performance / size >>> differences >>> > between actions when wal_level is set to either archive or >>> hot_standby. >

Re: [HACKERS] History of WAL_LEVEL (archive vs hot_standby)

2014-03-27 Thread David Johnston
Noah Misch-2 wrote > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:06:02PM -0700, David Johnston wrote: >> shamccoy wrote >> > Hello. I've been doing some benchmarks on performance / size >> differences >> > between actions when wal_level is set to either archive or hot_standby. >> > I'm not seeing a ton of differe

Re: [HACKERS] History of WAL_LEVEL (archive vs hot_standby)

2014-03-27 Thread Noah Misch
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 03:06:02PM -0700, David Johnston wrote: > shamccoy wrote > > Hello. I've been doing some benchmarks on performance / size differences > > between actions when wal_level is set to either archive or hot_standby. > > I'm not seeing a ton of difference. I've read some posts a

Re: [HACKERS] History of WAL_LEVEL (archive vs hot_standby)

2014-03-27 Thread Josh Berkus
On 03/27/2014 03:06 PM, David Johnston wrote: > As I think both can be used for PITR I don't believe there is much downside, > technically or with resources, to using hot_standby instead of archive; but > I do not imagine it having any practical benefit either. Actually, "hot_standby" does have to

Re: [HACKERS] History of WAL_LEVEL (archive vs hot_standby)

2014-03-27 Thread David Johnston
shamccoy wrote > Hello. I've been doing some benchmarks on performance / size differences > between actions when wal_level is set to either archive or hot_standby. > I'm not seeing a ton of difference. I've read some posts about > discussions as to whether this parameter should be simplified and