Re: [PERFORM] PITR performance costs

2007-05-29 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 5/28/07, Dave Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since PITR has to enable archiving does this not increase the amount of disk I/O required ? I've set up warm standbys on a few servers (some of them quite busy!)...the additional load is virtually unmeasurable. I usually don't copy the files

[PERFORM] PITR performance costs

2007-05-28 Thread Dave Cramer
Since PITR has to enable archiving does this not increase the amount of disk I/O required ? Dave ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [PERFORM] PITR performance costs

2007-05-28 Thread Bill Moran
Dave Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since PITR has to enable archiving does this not increase the amount of disk I/O required ? It does increase the required amount of I/O. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [PERFORM] PITR performance costs

2007-05-28 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 28.05.2007, um 8:45:38 -0400 mailte Dave Cramer folgendes: Since PITR has to enable archiving does this not increase the amount of disk I/O required ? Yes. But you can use a different hard drive for this log. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150,

Re: [PERFORM] PITR performance costs

2007-05-28 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Dave Cramer wrote: Since PITR has to enable archiving does this not increase the amount of disk I/O required ? There's no difference in normal DML operations, but some bulk operations like CREATE INDEX that don't otherwise generate WAL, need to be WAL logged when archiving is enabled. --

Re: [PERFORM] PITR performance costs

2007-05-28 Thread Dave Cramer
Heikki, Don't the archived logs have to be copied as well as the regular WAL logs get recycled ? Dave On 28-May-07, at 12:31 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Dave Cramer wrote: Since PITR has to enable archiving does this not increase the amount of disk I/O required ? There's no

Re: [PERFORM] PITR performance costs

2007-05-28 Thread Stephen Frost
Dave, et al, * Dave Cramer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Don't the archived logs have to be copied as well as the regular WAL logs get recycled ? Yes, but I'd expect at the point they're being copied off to some other store (probably a seperate disk, or even over the network to another system,

Re: [PERFORM] PITR performance costs

2007-05-28 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 08:45 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote: Since PITR has to enable archiving does this not increase the amount of disk I/O required ? As Heikki says, some operations need logging when PITR is on; these are now documented in the performance tips section of the latest dev docs: