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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Luke Lonergan <LLonergan@greenplum.com>
Cc: Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
Cc: Matthew Schumacher <matt.s@aptalaska.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Performance problems testing with Spamassassin
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:12:46 -0400
Message-ID: <16614.1122646366@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E37B936B592014B978C4415F90D662D0C4221@MI8NYCMAIL06.Mi8.com>
References: <3E37B936B592014B978C4415F90D662D0C4221@MI8NYCMAIL06.Mi8.com>

"Luke Lonergan" <LLonergan@greenplum.com> writes:
> I guess we see the real culprit here.  Anyone surprised it's the WAL?

You have not proved that at all.

I haven't had time to look at Matthew's problem, but someone upthread
implied that it was doing a separate transaction for each word.  If so,
collapsing that to something more reasonable (say one xact per message)
would probably help a great deal.

			regards, tom lane



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