Re: WAL Performance Improvements

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> AFAICS the only real win that can be gotten with a change like
> Janardhana's would be to avoid writing multiple blocks in the case
> where the filesystem block size is smaller than the xlog's BLCKSZ.
> Tuning this correctly would require knowing the kernel's block size.
> Anyone have ideas about a portable way to find that out?

I have been thinking for quite some time now that it would be a cool
project to turn Postgres into using aio_(read|write) + O_DIRECT instead of
read|write + fsync; in that case the caller gets to control the blocksize
within the limits permitted by the hardware, and Janardhana's optimization
could safely be applied.

Regards
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