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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: when the startup process doesn't
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:55:28 -0400
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Andres Freund (andres@anarazel.de) wrote:
>> What do you mean by that? That the overhead of writing it out more
>> frequently wouldn't be too bad? Or that we shouldn't "unnecessarily" add
>> more fields to it?

> Mostly just that the added overhead in writing it out more frequently
> wouldn't be too bad.

My concern about it was not at all about performance, but that every time
you write it is a new opportunity for the filesystem to lose or corrupt
the data.

			regards, tom lane

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