Re: PITR performance costs

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 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.
>
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