Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05639FB7CF for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:21:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65291-03 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:21:05 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CAB9FB803 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:21:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3OIJVU5006590; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:19:31 -0400 (EDT) To: Josh Berkus cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, "Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" , "Koichi Suzuki" , pgsql-patches@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Full page writes improvement, code update In-reply-to: <200704240831.42873.josh@agliodbs.com> References: <460886E8.6040907@oss.ntt.co.jp> <462D5A23.9060706@oss.ntt.co.jp> <200704240831.42873.josh@agliodbs.com> Comments: In-reply-to Josh Berkus message dated "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:31:42 -0700" Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:19:30 -0400 Message-ID: <6589.1177438770@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/472 X-Sequence-Number: 2039 Josh Berkus writes: > Well, as a PG hacker I find the name wal_fullpage_optimization quite > baffling and I think our general user base will find it even more so. > Now that I have Koichi's explanation of the problem, I vote for simply > slaving this to the PITR settings and not having a separate option at > all. The way to not have a separate option is to not need one, by having the feature not cost anything extra in the first place. Andreas and I have made the point repeatedly about how to do that. regards, tom lane