Le mardi 09 septembre 2008, Markus Wanner a écrit :
> ..and it will still has to wait until WAL is written to disk on the
> local node, as we do now. These are two different things to wait for.
> One is a network socket operation, the other is an fsync(). As these
> don't work together too well (blocking), you better run that in two
> different processes.
Exactly the point. The process is now already waiting in all cases, so maybe
we could just force waiting some WALSender signal before sending the fsync()
order, so we now have Group Commit.
I'm not sure this is a good idea at all, it's just the way I understand how
adding WALSender process in the mix could give Group Commit feature for free.
Regards,
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