On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Stas Kelvich <s.kelvich@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> Standard config with increased shared_buffers. I think the most significant
> impact on the recovery speed here is on the client side, namely time between
> prepare and commit. Right now I’m using pgbench script that issues commit
> right after prepare. It’s also possible to put sleep between prepare and
> commit
> and increase number of connections to thousands. That will be probably the
> worst case — majority of prepared tx will be moved to files.
I think that it would be a good idea to actually test that in pure
recovery time, aka no client, and just use a base backup and make it
recover X prepared transactions that have created Y checkpoints after
dropping cache (or restarting server).
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Michael