On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've discovered a built-in performance issue with replication failover
> at one site, which I couldn't find searching the archives. I don't
> really see what we can do to fix it, so I'm posting it here in case
> others might have clever ideas.
>
> 1. The Free Space Map is not replicated between servers.
>
> 2. Thus, when we fail over to a replica, it starts with a blank FSM.
>
> 3. I believe replica also starts with zero counters for autovacuum.
>
> 4. On a high-UPDATE workload, this means that the replica assumes tables
> have no free space until it starts to build a new FSM or autovacuum
> kicks in on some of the tables, much later on.
If it's really a high-UPDATE workload, wouldn't autovacuum start soon?
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
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