From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
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Subject: Re: when the startup process doesn't
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Comments: In-reply-to Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
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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