At 10:07 AM 6/24/99 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 wrote:
>Are we really doing a sync after the pg_log write ? While the sync
>after datablock write seems necessary to guarantee consistency,
>the sync after log write is actually not necessary to guarantee consistency.
>Would it be a first step, to special case the writing to pg_log, as
>to not sync (extra switch to backend) ? This would avoid the syncs
>for read only transactions, since they don't cause data block writes.
This sounds like a creative hack to me, if it actually works...it would
solve the problem I (and other users who do lots of fast tiny hits on the
db) see with my web serving site.
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